Word Meanings - INJUNCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome 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. Note: It is more generally used

Additional info about word: INJUNCTION

A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome 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. Note: It is more generally used as a preventive than as a restorative process, although by no means confined to the former. Wharton. Daniell. Story. (more info) 1. The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting. 2. That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction. For still they knew,and ought to have still remembered, The high injunction,not to taste that fruit. Milton. Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INJUNCTION)

• Behest
• Injunction
• command
• instruction
• mandate
• commission
• requirement
• trust
• Order
• Arrangement
• condition
• sequence
• direction
• rank
• grade
• class
• decree
• succession
• series
• method
• injunction
• precept
• Precept
• Rule
• maxim
• commandment
• doctrine
• law
• principle
• order

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INJUNCTION)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent

Related words: (words related to INJUNCTION)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• 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.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.