What is "enjoinment"

Enjoinment \En*join"ment\, n. Direction; command; authoritative admonition. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.

n. (context obsolete English) A command; an authoritative admonition.

n. (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order" [syn: injunction, enjoining, cease and desist order]