There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good,
and sinneth not. -- Eccl. vii.
20.
Just balances, just weights, . . . shall ye have. --
Lev. xix. 36.
How should man be just with God? -- Job ix. 2.
We know your grace to be a man. Just and upright. --
Shak.
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. -- Pope.
The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship
To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies.
-- Shak.
He was a comely personage, a little above just
stature. --Bacon.
Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant
heat. -- Jer.
Taylor.
When all The war shall stand ranged in its just
array. -- Addison.
Their named alone would make a just volume. --
Burton.
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. --Tillotson.
{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. --H. W. Poole.
Syn: Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial;
proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular.
And having just enough, not covet more. -- Dryden.
The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the
beast. --Sir P.
Sidney.
To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and
one. -- Shak.
Just at the point of death. -- Sir W.
Temple.
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. -- Dryden.
{Just now}, the least possible time since; a moment ago.
Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament. --Milton.
For the whole army to joust and tourney. --Holland.