enjoinment

noun

enjoinment

noun

Etymology From enjoin + -ment.

1

Archaic A command, decree or ruling from an authority.

Herein exact and critical trial should be made by public enjoinment, whereby determination might be settled beyond debate1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

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