Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin injunct-, past participle stem of injungere (see enjoin) + -ive. As a term in grammar, from 1910.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to the injunctive mood. 2 Pertaining to or being an injunction. n. 1 (context linguistics uncountable English) A verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect. 2 (context linguistics countable English) A verbal lexeme in injunctive mood.
Wikipedia
Injunctive may refer to:
- Injunction, a legal concept
- Injunctive mood, a linguistic concept
Usage examples of "injunctive".
But when the hearing came up, Sutton placed Jim Reed and me in the witness-box, taking the stand later himself, and we showed that federal court that it had been buncoed out of an order of injunctive relief, in favor of the biggest set of ringsters that ever missed stretching hemp.
Four months' careful rune reading, compiling the requisite materials and injunctives, a full cauldron of boiled subatomic particles and such--and I end up with you.