Part 6208

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.</def> "O <i>just</i> but severe law!"

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>There is not a <b>just</b> man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. <i> Eccl. vii. 20.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Just</b> balances, <b>just</b> weights, . . . shall ye have. <i> Lev. xix. 36.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>How should man be <b>just</b> with God? <i> Job ix. 2.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We know your grace to be a man. <b>Just</b> and upright. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due; <as>as, a <ex>just</ex> statement; a <ex>just</ex> inference.</as></def>

<blockquote><b>Just</b> of thy word, in every thought sincere. <i> Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace <b>just</b> distance 'tween our armies. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He was a comely personage, a little above <b>just stature.</</b>q> <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Fire fitted with <b>just</b> materials casts a constant heat. <i> Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>When all The war shall stand ranged in its <b>just</b> array. <i> Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Their named alone would make a <b>just</b> volume. <i> Burton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; <as>as, <ex>just</ex> judge</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Men are commonly so <b>just</b> to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Just intonation</col>. <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch</cd>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without <i>temperament<i>; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much greater than the twelve to the octave used in systems of temperament.</cd></cs>

<i>H. W. Poole.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial; proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular.</syn>

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<hw>Just</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.</def>

<blockquote>And having <b>just</b> enough, not covet more. <i> Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The god Pan guided my hand <b>just</b> to the heart of the beast. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To-night, at Herne's oak, <b>just</b> 'twixt twelve and one. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Closely; nearly; almost.</def>

<blockquote><b>Just</b> at the point of death. <i> Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; <as>as, he <ex>just</ex> missed the train; <ex>just</ex> too late.</as></def>

<blockquote>A soft Etesian gale But <b>just</b> inspired and gently swelled the sail. <i> Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Just now</col>, <cd>the least possible time since; a moment ago.</cd></cs>