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 Just a.
 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.   --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.
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 The war shall stand ranged in its just array.   --Addison.
    Their names 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.
 Syn: -- Equitable; upright; honest; true; fair; impartial; proper; exact; normal; orderly; regular.