Issue an injunction.

Roget 695: advise, counsel; give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice [Fr.]; suggest, prompt, submonish^†, recommend, prescribe, advocate; exhort etc. (persuade) 615.    enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon etc. (request) 765; dictate.    expostulate etc. (dissuade) 616; admonish etc. (warn) 668.    advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with.    confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.    ... show more

Roget 926: be the duty of; be incumbent etc. adj.. on, be responsible etc. adj.; behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of.    take upon oneself etc. (promise) 768; be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility etc. n.; be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.    impose a duty, etc. n.; enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige.    enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty etc. (be virtuous) 944.    be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.    ... show more

Roget 600: will, list; see fit, think fit; determine etc. (resolve) 604; enjoin; settle etc. (choose) 609; volunteer.    have a will of one's own; do what one chooses etc. (freedom) 748; have it all.   one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way.    use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority; originate etc. (cause) 153.    ... show more

Roget 761: prohibit, inhibit; forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop [Law]; bar; debar etc. (hinder) 706, forefend.    keep in, keep within bounds; restrain etc. 751; cohibit^†, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban, place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the banns.    ... show more

Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.

synonyms: order, say, tell.

Roget 741: command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give orders.    prescribe, set, appoint, mark out; set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task; set to work, put in requisition.    bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct; require at the hands of; exact, impose, tax, task; demand; insist on etc. (compel) 744.    claim, lay claim to, revendicate^†, reclaim.    cite, summon; call for, send for; subpoena; beckon.    issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order etc. n.; give the word of command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay down the law; assume the command etc. (authority) 737; remand.    be ordered &c.; receive an order etc. n.. ... show more

Dutch: bevelen