Joust \Joust\ (joust or j[u^]st; 277), v. i. [OE. justen,
jousten, OF. jouster, jouster, joster, F. jouter, fr. L.
juxta near to, nigh, from the root of jungere to join. See
Join, and cf. Jostle.]
1. To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in
the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.]
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For the whole army to joust and tourney. --Holland.
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2. Hence: To engage in a competition involving one-to-one
struggle with an opponent.
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Joust \Joust\, n. [OE. juste, jouste, OF. juste, jouste, joste,
F. joute. See Joust, v. i.]
1. A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two
knights in the lists or inclosed field. [Written also
just.]
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Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament. --Milton.
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2. Hence: Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with
an opponent.
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Just \Just\, a. [F. juste, L. justus, fr. jus right, law,
justice; orig., that which is fitting; akin to Skr. yu to
join. Cf. Injury, Judge, Jury, Giusto.]
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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!" --Shak.
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There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good,
and sinneth not. --Eccl. vii.
20.
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Just balances, just weights, . . . shall ye have.
--Lev. xix.
36.
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How should man be just with God? --Job ix. 2.
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We know your grace to be a man.
Just and upright. --Shak.
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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.
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Just of thy word, in every thought sincere. --Pope.
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The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship
To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies.
--Shak.
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He was a comely personage, a little above just
stature. --Bacon.
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Fire fitted with just materials casts a constant
heat. --Jer. Taylor.
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When all
The war shall stand ranged in its just array.
--Addison.
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Their names alone would make a just volume.
--Burton.
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3. Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due;
equitable; fair; impartial; as, just judge.
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Men are commonly so just to virtue and goodness as
to praise it in others, even when they do not
practice it themselves. --Tillotson.
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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.
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Just \Just\, v. i. [See Joust.]
To joust. --Fairfax.
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Just \Just\, n.
A joust. --Dryden.
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Just \Just\, adv.
1. Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither
more nor less than is stated.
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And having just enough, not covet more. --Dryden.
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The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the
beast. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and
one. --Shak.
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2. Closely; nearly; almost.
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Just at the point of death. --Sir W.
Temple.
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3. Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or
time; as, he just missed the train; just too late.
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A soft Etesian gale
But just inspired and gently swelled the sail.
--Dryden.
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Just now, the least possible time since; a moment ago.
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just
adj 1: used especially of what is legally or ethically right or
proper or fitting; "a just and lasting peace"-
A.Lincoln; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward";
"his just inheritance" [ant: unjust]
2: implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a
natural sense of what is fair to all; "equitable treatment
of all citizens"; "an equitable distribution of gifts
among the children" [syn: equitable] [ant: inequitable]
3: free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception;
or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair
referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair
fight"; "by fair means or foul" [syn: fair] [ant: unfair]
4: of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just
cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the
nation is secure only while the nation is honest,
truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass [syn: good,
upright, virtuous]
adv 1: and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a
matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a
child"; "hopes that last but a moment" [syn: merely,
simply, only, but]
2: indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely
(or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as
he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt"
[syn: precisely, exactly]
3: only a moment ago; "he has just arrived"; "the sun just now
came out" [syn: just now]
4: absolutely; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just
grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!" [syn: simply]
5: by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we
hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely
rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce
arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"-
W.B.Yeats [syn: barely, hardly, scarcely, scarce]
WordNet (r) 2.0
312 Moby Thesaurus words for "just":
Christian, OK, absolute, absolutely, accurate, accurately,
actionable, admissible, all, all in all, all right, all-knowing,
all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, almost, alone, aloof,
altogether, angelic, applicable, appropriate, approximately, apt,
as well, at best, at most, authoritative, authorized, awfully,
balanced, bang, barely, becoming, befitting, binding, blameless,
boundless, but, changeless, clean, cogent, comely, competent,
completely, condign, conscientious, consistent, constitutional,
correct, creating, creative, credible, creditable, dead,
dead right, decent, defensible, definitely, dependable, deserved,
detached, directly, disinterested, dispassionate, due, equal,
equitable, erect, estimable, eternal, eternally the same, ethical,
even, evenhanded, everlasting, exactly, exceedingly, exclusively,
expressly, fair, fair and square, fair-minded, faithful,
faithfully, faultless, felicitous, fit, fitting, flawless,
full of integrity, glorious, godly, good, hallowed, happy, hardly,
high-minded, high-principled, highest, highly respectable, holy,
honest, honorable, immaculate, immortal, immutable, impartial,
impersonal, in all respects, in every respect, in toto,
indifferent, infinite, inspired, inviolate, ipsissimis verbis,
irreproachable, judicial, juridical, just now, just right,
justiciable, justifiable, justified, kosher, lately, law-abiding,
law-loving, law-revering, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative,
legit, legitimate, letter-perfect, level, licit, limitless,
literally, literatim, logical, loving, luminous, majestic, making,
manly, meet, meet and right, merciful, merely, merited, meticulous,
mightily, mighty, moral, nearly, neutral, noble, numinous,
objective, okay, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, only,
only just, only too, perfect, perfectly, permanent, perpetual,
plainly, plausible, plumb, point-blank, positively, powerful,
powerfully, precisely, pretty, principled, proper, pure, purely,
quite, radiant, rational, real, really, reasonable, reliable,
reputable, requisite, respectable, right, right and proper,
right-minded, righteous, rightful, rigid, rigidly, rigorously,
sacred, saintlike, saintly, sanctioned, sane, scarce, scarcely,
scrupulous, seemly, self-consistent, sensible, seraphic, shaping,
sharp, simply, simply and solely, singly, smack-dab, so, solely,
solid, sound, sovereign, spang, spotless, square, squarely,
stainless, statutory, sterling, straight, straight-up-and-down,
strict, strictly, substantial, sufficient, suitable, supreme,
terribly, terrifically, timeless, to the letter, totally, tried,
true, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled,
true-spirited, truehearted, trustworthy, ubiquitous, unbiased,
unblemished, unbounded, unchanging, uncolored, uncorrupt,
uncorrupted, undazzled, undefiled, undefined, undeviatingly,
undistorted, unerringly, unimpeachable, uninfluenced, unjaundiced,
unlimited, unmistakably, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unspotted,
unstained, unsullied, unswayed, untarnished, upright, uprighteous,
upstanding, utterly, valid, veracious, verbally, verbatim,
verbatim et litteratim, veridical, very, virtuous, warrantable,
warranted, weighty, well-argued, well-chosen, well-expressed,
well-founded, well-grounded, well-put, wholesome, wholly,
within the law, word by word, word for word, worthy, yeomanly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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