with personal object (originally indirect, in dative or preceded by on, to; afterwards direct) and infinitive or subordinate clause.

To lay a command or injunction upon; to command, order, enjoin; to exhort authoritatively; to give charge. Const. with infinitive, or with clause…

transitive. To give (a person) instructions or directions for action; to instruct, direct, tell to do something.

= charge, v.

To dictate to, enjoin (a person).

To enjoin or charge (a person) to (the task), or with infinitive or subordinate clause; rarely with complement (quot. 1400). = enjoin, v. 2c 2e.

transitive. To give authoritative directions or instructions to (a person); to tell or order to do something; to direct, command. Now usually with…

To enjoin or commission (a person) to do something. Obsolete.

Used for enjoin, v.

transitive. To instruct (a person) in a matter. Obsolete.

To give authoritative instructions to; to ordain, order, or appoint (a person) to do a thing, (a thing) to be done.