injunction

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=junc=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

injunction, n. [L. injunctio, fr. injungere, injunctum, to join into, to enjoin. See Enjoin.].

•  The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.  [1913 Webster]

  "For still they knew, and ought to have still remembered,
  The high injunction, not to taste that fruit."  [1913 Webster]

  "Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority."  [1913 Webster]
•  A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.  [1913 Webster]

  " It is more generally used as a preventive than as a restorative process, although by no means confined to the former."  Wharton. Daniell. Story.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

injunction, n.
1 an authoritative warning or order.
2 Law a judicial order restraining a person from an act or compelling redress to an injured party.

Derivative

injunctive adj.

Etymology

LL injunctio f. L injungere ENJOIN

THESAURUS

injunction

Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, admonition, arrest, arrestation, ban, bar, barring, behest, bench warrant, bidding, blockade, boycott, capias, caveat, charge, check, circumscription, command, commission, constraint, contraband, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, death warrant, debarment, debarring, deceleration, demarcation, denial, dictate, direction, directive, disallowance, embargo, exception, exclusion, exhortation, fieri facias, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, habere facias possessionem, hindrance, inadmissibility, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, instruction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, law, legal restraint, lockout, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, mittimus, monopoly, narrowing, nisi prius, no-no, nonadmission, notice, notification, omission, order, precept, preclusion, prescript, prescription, prevention, process, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rationing, refusal, rein, rejection, relegation, repression, repudiation, restraint, restraint of trade, restriction, restrictive covenants, retardation, retrenchment, ruling, ruling out, search warrant, self-control, slowing down, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, tariff wall, teaching, thought control, warning, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, word, writ, zoning, zoning laws

ROGET THESAURUS

injunction

Requirement

N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.

Advice

N advice, counsel, adhortation, word to the wise, suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy, advisement, exhortation, expostulation, admonition, guidance, instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation, Governor's message, President's message, King's message, Queen's speech, message, speech from the throne, adviser, prompter, counsel, counselor, monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator, teacher, guide, manual, chart, physician, doctor, leech, archiater, arbiter, reference, referment, consultation, conference, pourparler, recommendatory, hortative, dehortatory, admonitory, Int, go to!, give every man thine ear but few thy voice, I pray thee cease thy counsel, my guide, philosopher, and friend, 'twas good advice and meant, my son be good, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, vive memor leti, we, ask advice but we mean approbation.

Command

N command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod, despatch, dispatch, message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions, appointment, fixture, demand, exaction, imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation, revendication, ultimatum, request, requirement, dictation, dictate, mandate, caveat, decree, senatus consultum, precept, prescript, rescript, writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti- sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation, word, word of command, mot d'ordre, bugle call, trumpet call, beat of drum, tattoo, order of the day, enactment, plebiscite, commanding, authoritative, decretory, decretive, decretal, callable, jussive, in a commanding tone, by a stroke of the pen, by a dash of the pen, by order, at beat of drum, on the first summons, the decree is gone forth, sic volo sic jubeo, le Roi le veut, boutez en avant.

Prohibition

N prohibition, inhibition, veto, disallowance, interdict, interdiction, injunction, estoppel, embargo, ban, taboo, proscription, index expurgatorius, restriction, hindrance, forbidden fruit, Maine law, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive, forbidding, prohibited, not permitted, unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of, illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale, on no account, Int, forbid it heaven!, hands off!, keep off!, hold!, stop!, desist!, cease and desist!, avast!, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, go ahead, make my day.