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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Just \Just\, adjective [F. juste, L. justus, fr. jus right, law, justice; orig., that which is fitting; akin to Skr. yu to join. Cf. {Injury}, {Judge}, {Jury}, {Giusto}.]
1. 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. ''O just but severe law!'' --Shak.
There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. --Eccl. vii. 20.
Just balances, just weights, . . . shall ye have. --Lev. xix. 36.
How should man be just with God? --Job ix. 2.
We know your grace to be a man. Just and upright. --Shak.
2. 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, a just statement; a just inference.
Just of thy word, in every thought sincere. --Pope.
The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies. --Shak.
He was a comely personage, a little above just stature. --Bacon.
Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant heat. --Jer. Taylor.
When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array. --Addison.
Their names alone would make a just volume. --Burton.
3. Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge.
Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves. --Tillotson.
{Just intonation}. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without {temperament}; 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. --H. W. Poole.
Syn: Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial; proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Just \Just\, adverb
1. Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
And having just enough, not covet more. --Dryden.
The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast. --Sir P. Sidney.
To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one. --Shak.
2. Closely; nearly; almost.
Just at the point of death. --Sir W. Temple.
3. Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.
A soft Etesian gale But just inspired and gently swelled the sail. --Dryden.
{Just now}, the least possible time since; a moment ago.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Just \Just\, verb (used without an object) [See {Joust}.] To joust. --Fairfax.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Just \Just\, noun A joust. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Joust \Joust\ (joust or j[u^]st; 277), verb (used without an object) [OE. justen, jousten, OF. jouster, jouster, joster, F. jouter, fr. L. juxta near to, nigh, from the root of jungere to join. See {Join}, and cf. {Jostle}.]
1. To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also {just}.] [1913 Webster +PJC]
For the whole army to joust and tourney. --Holland.
2. Hence: To engage in a competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Joust \Joust\, noun [OE. juste, jouste, OF. juste, jouste, joste, F. joute. See {Joust}, verb (used without an object)]
1. A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field. [Written also {just}.]
Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament. --Milton.
2. Hence: Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
just
adjective
1: used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting; "a just and lasting peace"- A.Lincoln; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward"; "his just inheritance" [ant: {unjust}]
2: implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all; "equitable treatment of all citizens"; "an equitable distribution of gifts among the children" [syn: {equitable}] [ant: {inequitable}]
3: free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul" [syn: {fair}] [ant: {unfair}]
4: of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass [syn: {good}, {upright}, {virtuous}]
adverb
1: and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment" [syn: {merely}, {simply}, {only}, {but}]
2: indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt" [syn: {precisely}, {exactly}]
3: only a moment ago; "he has just arrived"; "the sun just now came out" [syn: {just now}]
4: absolutely; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!" [syn: {simply}]
5: by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: {barely}, {hardly}, {scarcely}, {scarce}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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