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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. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Eccl. vii. 20. Just balances, just weigh…

The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy thr…

Liable to trial in a court of justice. [Obs.] Hayward.

Justiceship. B. Jonson.

Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who administers justice; a judge. [Obs.] "Some upright justicer." Shak.

The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.

Proper to be examined in a court of justice. Bailey.

Same as Justiciary.

An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.

Formerly, a close coat or waistcoat with sleeves.

Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men. Milton.

The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but…

Having power to justify; justificatory.

One who justifies or vindicates; a justifier. Johnson.

Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.

One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves. Justifiers of themselves and hypocrites. Strype. That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Rom. iii. 26.

To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty. That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not ju…

Of or pertaining to the Institutes or laws of the Roman Justinian.

encounter; to clash; to jostle. Shak. The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways. Nahum ii. 4.