different between indoin vs injoin

English

Etymology

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

? + -in

Noun

indoin (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A substance resembling indigo blue, obtained artificially from certain isatogen compounds.

English

Verb

injoin (third-person singular simple present injoins, present participle injoining, simple past and past participle injoined)

1. Obsolete form of enjoin.
   • 1731, Philippus van Limborch, The History of the Inquisition, Volumes 1-2, page 307,

     When the?e Favours were be?towed, the Sentences were read over, by which Penances were injoined the Criminals.

     The fir?t Sentences were those of the Cro?s-Bearers, who were injoined to wear Cro??es on their Brea?t and Back, and if their Crimes were very heinous, they were condemned to wear two.

   • 1751, George Buchanan, unnamed translator, History of Scotland [1582, Rerum Scoticarum Historia], Volume 1, page 238,

     Neither did the King omit to perform all that they injoined him, thinking to be healed in his Con?cience by the?e Expiations.

   • 1823, The Family Prayer-Book, Or The Book of Common Prayer, page 639,

     And our blessed Lord injoins all his disciples to be “wise” as well as “harmless.” Matt. x. 16.

Anagrams

• join in, joinin'