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t Jerusalem above my chief joy. Ps. cxxxvii. 6. Preferred an infamous peace before a most just war. Knolles. Preferred stock, stock which takes a dividend before other capital stock; -- called also preference stock and preferential stock.

jection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man. Macaulay.

Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennæ of certain insects. -- n.

, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated. That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will not preponderate. Bp. Wilkins.

n obedience to the will, enabling one to reach, as it were spontaneously or by intuition, just conclusions in sudden emergencies.

A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. [Obs.] Just Apollo, president of verse. Waller.

a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis.

To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.

A writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. Tomlins. Burrill.

nner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton.

ce; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor. He [Jesus Christ] is the propitiation for our sins. 1 John ii. 2.

between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion. "Let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith." Rom. xii. 6.

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.

ency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.

ile paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary. Story. Kent.

An adjustable pattern used by tailors. Knight.

The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.

Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. Blackstone.

A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

taining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.