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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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enjoin
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synonyms: adjure, entreat ???
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Definition:to instruct or urge somebody to do something
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It was strictly enjoined, that the project of starving you by degrees should be kept a secret;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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after enjoining me to secrecy, they told me that they had a mind to fit out a ship to go to Guinea; that they had all plantations as well as I, and were straitened for nothing so much as servants; that as it was a trade that could not be carried on, because they could not publicly sell the negroes when they came home, so they desired to make but one voyage, to bring the negroes on shore privately, and divide them among their own plantations;
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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the Holy Books of Jews, Christians, and pagans; that they are alike in their ends and aims and main characteristics; that all inculcate the same fundamental doctrines; that all impart and enjoin the observance of intrinsically the same moral lessons, the same preceptive aphorisms.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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He did not think that the Christian law that he had been all his life trying to follow, enjoined on him to forgive and love his enemies; but a glad feeling of love and forgiveness for his enemies filled his heart.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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