different between enjoin vs hote

English

Etymology

From Middle English enjoinen, from Old French enjoindre (“to join with”), from Latin iniungo (“to attach”), a compound of in- (“into” “upon”) and iungo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?d???n/, /?n?d???n/, /?n?d???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

enjoin (third-person singular simple present enjoins, present participle enjoining, simple past and past participle enjoined)

1. (transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
   • 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 9 [1]

     I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:

   • 1611, King James Bible - Esther 9:31, [2]

     to confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them […]
2. (transitive, law) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
   • 1989, Western Oregon Program—Management of Competing Vegetation: Proposed Record of Decision, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Chapter 1, p. 9, [4]

     In 1983, BLM was enjoined by court order from using any herbicides in its Medford, Oregon District. Subsequent court action in 1984 enjoined BLM from the use of herbicides throughout Oregon and the U.S. Forest Service was similarly enjoined throughout Region 6 (Pacific Northwest).

   • 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law

     the judicial power of the United States had no power to enjoin the executive branch of the government from the execution of a constitutional duty or of a constitutional law

Related terms

• injunction (noun)

Translations

References

• enjoin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “enjoin”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• enjoin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoten, hoaten, haten, from Old English h?tan (“to command, be called”), from Proto-Germanic *haitan? (“command, name”), from Proto-Indo-European *keyd-, from *key- (“put in motion, be moving”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian heete (“to be named”), Dutch heten (“to be named”), German Low German heten (“to be called, be named”), German heißen (“to be called”), Swedish heta (“to be called”). Related to hight, hest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

hote (third-person singular simple present hotes, present participle hoting, simple past hight, past participle hoten)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.

2. (obsolete) To promise.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To call, name.

Usage notes

• In the sense of "to command, enjoin", hight may be replaced as follows:

• The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. = The captain said to five sailors: Stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.
• Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. = Beowulf said to his men: Build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.

• The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.

Related terms

• behote

Anagrams

• Theo, Theo., etho-, theo, theo-

Middle English

Noun

hote

1. Alternative form of ote