enjoin
verb
[ ɪnˈdʒɔɪn ]
• instruct or urge (someone) to do something.
• "the code enjoined members to trade fairly"
Similar:
urge,
encourage,
try to persuade,
adjure,
admonish,
press,
prompt,
prod,
goad,
egg on,
spur,
push,
pressure,
put pressure on,
use pressure on,
pressurize,
lean on,
instruct,
order,
command,
direct,
give the order to,
give the command to,
tell,
require,
call on,
demand,
charge,
warn,
entreat,
exhort,
implore,
appeal to,
beg,
beseech,
plead with,
nag,
put the heat on,
put the screws on,
twist someone's arm,
railroad into,
bulldoze into,
bid,
Origin:
Middle English (formerly also as injoin ): from Old French enjoindre, from Latin injungere ‘join, attach, impose’, from in- ‘in, towards’ + jungere ‘to join’.
