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Just   /dʒəst/  /dʒɪst/   Listen
adverb
Just  adv.  
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."
Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago.


adjective
Just  adj.  
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."
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.
Synonyms: Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial; proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular.


noun
Just  n.  A joust.


Joust  n.  
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."
2.
Hence: Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.


verb
Just  v. i.  To joust.


Joust  v. i.  
1.
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. (Written also just) "For the whole army to joust and tourney."
2.
Hence: To engage in a competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.





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"Just" Quotes from Famous Books



... way but had not been accompanied by the feeling of enmity. It is by no means certain that a secure and complete community life would always result if these energies should disappear which, looked at in detail, seem repulsive and destructive, just as a qualitatively unchanged and richer property results when unproductive elements disappear; but there would ensue rather a condition as changed, and often as unrealizable, as after the elimination of the forces of co-operation—sympathy, ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... trying to escape. He came to an aged couple, who hid him in their cabin and shared their humble food with him. They gave him some corn-bread, bacon, and coffee which he thought was made of scorched bran. But he said that he never ate a meal that he relished more than the one he took with them. Just before he went they knelt down and prayed with him. It seemed as if his very hair stood on his head, their prayer was so solemn. As he was going away the man took some shingles and nailed them on his shoes to throw the bloodhounds ...
— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper
... which body he was elected a member in 1903) and elsewhere, proves that his skill with the brush is no less than with pen or pencil. The present volume includes, besides the drawing of Tony Weller just referred to, his picture of "The Warrener," another fine character-study, exhibited at the Royal Institute in 1907. "The Introduction," an example of a "time sketch" done at the London Sketch Club, illustrates the quick readiness with which the artist nimbly catches the spirit of his subject, ...
— Frank Reynolds, R.I. • A.E. Johnson
... what I could to cheer her up, and went out to find Hannibal just leaving the doctor, and ready to laugh at the wounds upon his arms as being too trifling to be worthy of notice. In fact the pains he suffered did not prevent him from partaking of a hearty meal, at which ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn
... outrageous hand; And hoped to find in some propitious hour A feeling creature subject to his power. Peter had heard there were in London then, - Still have they being!—workhouse-clearing men, Who, undisturb'd by feelings just or kind, Would parish-boys to needy tradesmen bind: They in their want a trifling sum would take, And toiling slaves of piteous orphans make. Such Peter sought, and when a lad was found, The sum was dealt him, and the slave was bound. Some few in town observed in ...
— The Borough • George Crabbe


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