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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



... Pizarro and his followers into the country of the Incas, it is necessary to make the reader acquainted with the critical situation of the kingdom at that time. For the Spaniards arrived just at the consummation of an important revolution, - at a crisis most favorable to their views of conquest, and but for which, indeed, the conquest, with such a handful of soldiers, could never have been achieved. In ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... complain?" He was not in favour of any innovations on British colonial government. Very few people understood what responsible government meant. He hardly understood it himself. It was, in his opinion, just introducing another branch into our government. He was not in favour of the government initiating the money votes. He was always sensitive about the rights of the House—to them ought the power of originating the supplies to belong, and to none other—and ...
— Wilmot and Tilley • James Hannay
... more, though she, poor girl, being cook to the household apparently, could only enjoy his society when she was not employed "in the drudgery of the scullery." A year later, when William had returned to England again, and had just received his appointment as organist at Halifax, his father, Isaac, had a stroke of paralysis which ended his violin-playing for ever, and forced him to rely thenceforth upon copying music for a precarious livelihood. ...
— Biographies of Working Men • Grant Allen
... scrap, and Aunt Hannah said there had never been any that she could remember; and Maria just echoed her—she always does that. You see, Aunt Hannah is an up-and-down New England woman. She looks just like herself; I mean, just like her character. Her joints move up and down or backward and forward in a plain square fashion. I don't ...
— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various
... and seen. Then evening comes, and the lights change till it's just as though you stood in the heart of a king-opal. A little before sundown, as punctually as clockwork, a big bristly wild boar, with all his family following, trots through the city gate, churning the foam on his tusks. You climb on the shoulder ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling


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