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▪ I. † inˈjunct, a. Obs. rare. [ad. L. injunct-us, pa. pple. of injungĕre to enjoin.] Enjoined.
1517in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. vii. 6, cccc dayes of perdone of injuncte penance. ▪ II. inˈjunct, v. colloq. [f. L. injunct-, ppl. stem of injungĕre: after next.] trans. To prohibit or restrain by injunction. Now in somewhat more general use. Hence inˈjuncted ppl. a.
1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 653 Violent contractions, derived from well-known and well-formed words, like burgled, injuncted, and excurted. 1887Ohio St. Jrnl. (Columbus) 1 Sept., Because Foraker proposed to ‘injunct’ the return of the rebel flags. 1890Daily News 14 Apr. 3/2 Farmers..were driving up their carts of hay and weighing their produce on the injuncted machine. 1890in Pall Mall G. 19 Feb. 2/2 Stanley..came up to me and said rather grimly, ‘I shall have to injunct that little matter of yours’. 1894Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 5/3 A man was injuncted from calling a play ‘The Fatal Card’. 1900Westm. Gaz. 12 Sept. 2/2 Sir Edward Clarke is very likely right in thinking that the Court would hesitate to injunct a man for pirating his own speech. 1957Times 23 Nov. 3/2 Counsel said that Mr. Fielding wanted the Court to say that as he had first claim on Steele's services he should be injuncted from entering a contract with anyone else. But Steele could not be injuncted from going to South Africa. |