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JUST, adjective [Latin justus. The primary sense is probably straight or close, from the sense of setting, erecting, or extending.]1. Regular; orderly; due; suitable.When allThe war shall stand ranged in its just array.2. Exactly proportioned; proper.Pleaseth your lordshipTo meet his grace, just distance 'tween our armies?3. Full; complete to the common standard.He was a comely personage, a little above just stature.4. Full; true; a sense allied to the preceding, or the same.--So that once the skirmish was like to have come to a just battle.5. In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice; as a just judge.6. In an evangelical sense, righteous; religious; influenced by a regard to the laws of God; or living in exact conformity to the divine will.There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Ecclesiastes 7:15.7. Conformed to rules of justice; doing equal justice.JUST balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just him shall ye have. Leviticus 19:36.8. Conformed to truth; exact; proper; accurate; as just thoughts; just expressions; just images or representations; a just description; a just inference.9. True; founded in truth and fact; as a just charge or accusation.10. Innocent; blameless; without guilt.How should man be just with God? Job 9:2.11. Equitable; due; merited; as a just recompense or reward.--Whose damnation is just Romans 3:8.12. True to promises; faithful; as just to one's word or engagements.13. Impartial; allowing what is due; giving fair representation of character, merit or demerit.JUST', adverb Close or closely; ; near or nearly, in place. He stood just by the speaker, and heard what he said. He stood just at the entrance of the city.1. Near or nearly in time; almost. just at that moment he arose and fled.2. Exactly; nicely; accurately. They remain just of the same opinion.'Tis with our judgments as our watches; Go just alike, yet each believes his own.3. Merely; barely; exactly.--And having just enough, not covet more.4. Narrowly. He just escaped without injury.JUST, noun A mock encounter on horseback; a combat for sport or for exercise, in which the combatants pushed with lances and swords, man to man, in mock fight; a tilt; one of the exercises at tournaments.JUST, verb intransitive 1. To engage in mock fight on horseback.2. To push; to drive; to justle