Word Meanings - ENJOINMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Direction; command; authoritative admonition. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to ENJOINMENT)

• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• COMMANDEER
  To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of.
• COMMANDMENT
  One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given
• COMMANDINGLY
  In a commanding manner.
• COMMANDABLE
  Capable of being commanded.
• COMMANDRY
  See COMMANDERY
• COMMANDER
  An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. 3. The chief officer of a commandery. 4. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of
• DIRECTION
  The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
• ADMONITION
  Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object
• AUTHORITATIVE
  1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an
• COMMANDRESS
  A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.
• COMMANDERY
  1. The office or rank of a commander. 2. A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory. 3. An assembly or lodge
• COMMAND
  commander, fr. L. com- + mandare to commit to, to command. Cf. 1. To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge. We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive
• COMMANDANT
  A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.
• COMMANDERSHIP
  The office of a commander.
• ADMONITIONER
  Admonisher.
• INAUTHORITATIVE
  Without authority; not authoritative.
• MISDIRECTION
  An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• PREADMONITION
  Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.