Just
Just , adjective
[French juste, Latin justus, from jus right, law, justice; orig., that which is fitting; akin to Sanskrit yu to join. Compare 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!
There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Just balances, just weights,... shall ye have.
How should man be just with God?
We know your grace to be a man.
Just and upright.
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.
The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship
To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies.
He was a comely personage, a little above just stature.
Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant heat.
When all
The war shall stand ranged in its just array.
Their names alone would make a just volume.
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.
Collocations (1)
Just intonation (Music) , (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
Just , adverb
1.
Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
And having just enough, not covet more.
The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast.
To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.
2.
Closely; nearly; almost.
Just at the point of death.
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.
Collocations (1)
Just now , the least possible time since; a moment ago.
Just , intransitive verb
[See Joust.]
To joust. — Fairfax
Just , noun
A joust. — Dryden