injunction

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The Word of the Day for January 10 is: 

injunction   \in-JUNK-shun\   noun
     1 : the act or an instance of enjoining : order, 
admonition 
    *2 : a court order requiring a party to do or refrain from 
doing a specified act

Example sentence:
     The judge granted a temporary injunction against the 
planned construction.

Did you know?
     "Injunction" derives, via Anglo-French and Late Latin, 
from the Latin verb "injungere," which in turn derives 
from "jungere," meaning to "join." Like our 
verb "enjoin," "injungere" means "to direct or impose by 
authoritative order or with urgent admonition." (Not 
surprisingly, "enjoin" is also a descendant 
of "injungere.") "Injunction" has been around in English since 
at least the 15th century, when it began life as a word 
meaning "authoritative command." In the 16th century it 
developed a legal second sense applying to a court order. It 
has also been used as a synonym of "conjunction" 
(another "jungere" descendant), meaning "union," but that sense 
is extremely rare.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.