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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



... Spices: then take out the Spices, and put in the Oysters to stew gently, that they be not hard; and when they are near enough, add a piece of Butter, and as much grated Bread as will thicken the Liquor of the Oysters; and just before you take them from the Fire, stir ...
— The Country Housewife and Lady's Director - In the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm • Richard Bradley

... letter from him from the trenches that didn't mention Sirius. Everyone seemed to adore the dog, which developed into a regimental mascot. What his early history was can never be known: but Brian rescued him from a burning chateau in Belgium, just as Jim rescued the rocking-horse of Mother Beckett's nursery story, though with rather more risk! It was a chateau where some hidden tragedy must have been enacted, because the Germans took possession of it with the family still there—such of the family as wasn't fighting: two young ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... re-reading what he had just written; "what does this mean? It seems to me that it would be prudent to read it ...
— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

... the average miner. Yet the latter works hard in the bowels of the earth to provide real coals for real consumers, while the former is occupied in open air and daylight in damping down the imaginary fires of an imaginary hell. It is easy to see which is the more useful functionary, just as it is easy to see which is the better paid. Let us hope that the miners, and all other workers, will lay these facts to heart, and act accordingly. There are too many drones in England, living on the common produce of labor. ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... was a wise move,—we have enjoyed the living amazingly; but trust ourselves to those tasteless German cooks? We should be poisoned in a couple of days. Keep cool, my dear, or you will make yourself ill by getting into such a violent state of excitement just after breakfast. How do you suppose the important process of digestion can progress favorably if your blood is agitated in this ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


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