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adjective

Due adj.

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit. "Her obedience, which is due to me." "With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne."

Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.

Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.

Owing; ascribable, as to a cause. "This effect is due to the attraction of the sun."

noun

Due n.

That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. "He will give the devil his due." "Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil."

Right; just title or claim. "The key of this infernal pit by due... I keep."

adverb

Due adv. Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.

verb

Due v. t. To endue. (Obs.)

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... water, or hold them under the cold-water faucet. The cold-dip makes them easier to handle, separates the skin from the pulp, firms the texture, and coagulates the coloring matter so it stays near the surface, giving them a rich, red color. Then the shock due to the sudden change from hot to cold and back to hot again seems to help kill the spores. Do not let the product stand in the cold-dip. The water becomes lukewarm, softens the product ...

— Every Step in Canning • Grace Viall Gray

... Louisiana only as the French were about to take possession. However, the reversal of the order rendered the course of the further negotiations easier.] It seems probable that the Intendant's action was due to the fact that he deemed the days of Spanish dominion numbered, and, in his jealousy of the Americans, wished to place the new French authorities in the strongest possible position; but the act was not done ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt

... a question as to whether asceticism or non-asceticism is best. Life is for use. It is at once a trust and a privilege. It may seem to some that He chose 'the primrose path,' but if he did so it was not due to an easy-going good-nature. We dare not forget the terrible issues {157} He faced without flinching. As Professor Sanday has finely said, 'If we are to draw a lesson in this respect from our Lord's life, it ...

— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander

... calculated to make a powerful impression on the moral feeling, the poet, with the skill of a practised artist, has contrived to combine a number of cheerful accompaniments. Not, however, that the poet seems both to allow full scope to the serious impressions: he merely adds a due counterpoise to them in the entertainment which he supplies for the imagination and the understanding. He has furnished the story with all the separate features which are necessary to give to it the appearance of a real, though extraordinary, event. But he never ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black

... and who almost collapsed with terror every time anybody accosted her unexpectedly. She was the widow of a Unitarian pastor, well to do, people said, and a large mining proprietor. Her nervous affection was due to a painful episode in her life. One night Fatia Negra and his band had broken into her house and played havoc there, and ever since she had been tremulous and easily terror-stricken. The old woman ...

— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai

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