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   jacket potato
         n 1: a baked potato served with the jacket on

English Dictionary: justifiably by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
just about
adv
  1. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"
    Synonym(s): approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justifiable
adj
  1. capable of being justified
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justifiably
adv
  1. with good reason; "he is justifiably bitter" [ant: inexcusably, unjustifiably]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justification
n
  1. something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"
  2. a statement in explanation of some action or belief
  3. the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justificative
adj
  1. attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
    Synonym(s): defensive, justificative, justificatory
  2. providing justification
    Synonym(s): justificative, justificatory, vindicatory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justificatory
adj
  1. attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
    Synonym(s): defensive, justificative, justificatory
  2. providing justification
    Synonym(s): justificative, justificatory, vindicatory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justified
adj
  1. having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justifiedly
adv
  1. with honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time"
    Synonym(s): rightly, justly, justifiedly
    Antonym(s): unjustly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justifier
n
  1. a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"
    Synonym(s): apologist, vindicator, justifier
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
justify
v
  1. show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means"
    Synonym(s): justify, warrant
  2. show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim"
    Synonym(s): justify, vindicate
  3. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
    Synonym(s): apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
  4. let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"
    Synonym(s): absolve, justify, free
    Antonym(s): blame, fault
  5. adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
juxtapose
v
  1. place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
juxtaposed
adj
  1. placed side by side often for comparison; "juxtaposed pictures"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
juxtaposition
n
  1. the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
    Synonym(s): juxtaposition, apposition, collocation
  2. a side-by-side position
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Jack rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The
            California species ({Lepus Californicus}), and that of
            Texas and New Mexico ({L. callotis}), have the tail black
            above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become
            white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ({L.
            campestris}) has the upper side of the tail white, and in
            winter its fur becomes nearly white.
  
      {Jack rafter} (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters
            used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United
            States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters
            resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the
            pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves
            in some styles of building.
  
      {Jack salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
  
      {Jack sauce}, an impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.]
  
      {Jack shaft} (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a
            factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or
            gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same
            means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
  
      {Jack sinker} (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by
            the jack to depress the loop of thread between two
            needles.
  
      {Jack snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Jack staff} (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon
            which the jack is hoisted.
  
      {Jack timber} (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or
            studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the
            others.
  
      {Jack towel}, a towel hung on a roller for common use.
  
      {Jack truss} (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where
            the roof has not its full section.
  
      {Jack tree}. (Bot.) See 1st {Jack}, n.
  
      {Jack yard} (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond
            the gaff.
  
      {Blue jack}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
  
      {Hydraulic jack}, a jack used for lifting, pulling, or
            forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic
            press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply
            of liquid, as oil.
  
      {Jack-at-a-pinch}.
            (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an
                  emergency.
            (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional
                  service for a fee.
  
      {Jack-at-all-trades}, one who can turn his hand to any kind
            of work.
  
      {Jack-by-the-hedge} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Erysimum}
            ({E. alliaria}, or {Alliaria officinalis}), which grows
            under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not
            unlike garlic. Called also, in England, {sauce-alone}.
            --Eng. Cyc.
  
      {Jack-in-a-box}.
            (a) (Bot.) A tropical tree ({Hernandia sonora}), which
                  bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated
                  calyx.
            (b) A child's toy, consisting of a box, out of which,
                  when the lid is raised, a figure springs.
            (c) (Mech.) An epicyclic train of bevel gears for
                  transmitting rotary motion to two parts in such a
                  manner that their relative rotation may be variable;
                  applied to driving the wheels of tricycles, road
                  locomotives, and to cotton machinery, etc.; an
                  equation box; a jack frame; -- called also
                  {compensating gearing}.
            (d) A large wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the
                  crosspiece of a rude press.
  
      {Jack-in-office}, an insolent fellow in authority. --Wolcott.
  
      {Jack-in-the-bush} (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit
            ({Cordia Cylindrostachya}).
  
      {Jack-in-the-green}, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework
            of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
  
      {Jack-in-the-pulpit} (Bot.), the American plant {Aris[91]ma
            triphyllum}, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix
            is inclosed.
  
      {Jack-of-the-buttery} (Bot.), the stonecrop ({Sedum acre}).
           
  
      {Jack-of-the-clock}, a figure, usually of a man, on old
            clocks, which struck the time on the bell.
  
      {Jack-on-both-sides}, one who is or tries to be neutral.
  
      {Jack-out-of-office}, one who has been in office and is
            turned out. --Shak.
  
      {Jack the Giant Killer}, the hero of a well-known nursery
            story.
  
      {Jack-with-a-lantern}, {Jack-o'-lantern}.
            (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. [bd][Newspaper
                  speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns
                  to the future historian.[b8] --Lowell.
            (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in
                  illumination the features of a human face, etc.
  
      {Yellow Jack} (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine
            flag. See {Yellow flag}, under {Flag}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Jack rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The
            California species ({Lepus Californicus}), and that of
            Texas and New Mexico ({L. callotis}), have the tail black
            above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become
            white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ({L.
            campestris}) has the upper side of the tail white, and in
            winter its fur becomes nearly white.
  
      {Jack rafter} (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters
            used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United
            States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters
            resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the
            pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves
            in some styles of building.
  
      {Jack salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
  
      {Jack sauce}, an impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.]
  
      {Jack shaft} (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a
            factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or
            gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same
            means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
  
      {Jack sinker} (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by
            the jack to depress the loop of thread between two
            needles.
  
      {Jack snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Jack staff} (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon
            which the jack is hoisted.
  
      {Jack timber} (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or
            studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the
            others.
  
      {Jack towel}, a towel hung on a roller for common use.
  
      {Jack truss} (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where
            the roof has not its full section.
  
      {Jack tree}. (Bot.) See 1st {Jack}, n.
  
      {Jack yard} (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond
            the gaff.
  
      {Blue jack}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
  
      {Hydraulic jack}, a jack used for lifting, pulling, or
            forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic
            press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply
            of liquid, as oil.
  
      {Jack-at-a-pinch}.
            (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an
                  emergency.
            (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional
                  service for a fee.
  
      {Jack-at-all-trades}, one who can turn his hand to any kind
            of work.
  
      {Jack-by-the-hedge} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Erysimum}
            ({E. alliaria}, or {Alliaria officinalis}), which grows
            under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not
            unlike garlic. Called also, in England, {sauce-alone}.
            --Eng. Cyc.
  
      {Jack-in-a-box}.
            (a) (Bot.) A tropical tree ({Hernandia sonora}), which
                  bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated
                  calyx.
            (b) A child's toy, consisting of a box, out of which,
                  when the lid is raised, a figure springs.
            (c) (Mech.) An epicyclic train of bevel gears for
                  transmitting rotary motion to two parts in such a
                  manner that their relative rotation may be variable;
                  applied to driving the wheels of tricycles, road
                  locomotives, and to cotton machinery, etc.; an
                  equation box; a jack frame; -- called also
                  {compensating gearing}.
            (d) A large wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the
                  crosspiece of a rude press.
  
      {Jack-in-office}, an insolent fellow in authority. --Wolcott.
  
      {Jack-in-the-bush} (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit
            ({Cordia Cylindrostachya}).
  
      {Jack-in-the-green}, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework
            of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
  
      {Jack-in-the-pulpit} (Bot.), the American plant {Aris[91]ma
            triphyllum}, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix
            is inclosed.
  
      {Jack-of-the-buttery} (Bot.), the stonecrop ({Sedum acre}).
           
  
      {Jack-of-the-clock}, a figure, usually of a man, on old
            clocks, which struck the time on the bell.
  
      {Jack-on-both-sides}, one who is or tries to be neutral.
  
      {Jack-out-of-office}, one who has been in office and is
            turned out. --Shak.
  
      {Jack the Giant Killer}, the hero of a well-known nursery
            story.
  
      {Jack-with-a-lantern}, {Jack-o'-lantern}.
            (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. [bd][Newspaper
                  speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns
                  to the future historian.[b8] --Lowell.
            (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in
                  illumination the features of a human face, etc.
  
      {Yellow Jack} (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine
            flag. See {Yellow flag}, under {Flag}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Jack rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The
            California species ({Lepus Californicus}), and that of
            Texas and New Mexico ({L. callotis}), have the tail black
            above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become
            white in winter. The more northern prairie hare ({L.
            campestris}) has the upper side of the tail white, and in
            winter its fur becomes nearly white.
  
      {Jack rafter} (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters
            used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United
            States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters
            resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the
            pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves
            in some styles of building.
  
      {Jack salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.
  
      {Jack sauce}, an impudent fellow. [Colloq. & Obs.]
  
      {Jack shaft} (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a
            factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or
            gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same
            means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
  
      {Jack sinker} (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by
            the jack to depress the loop of thread between two
            needles.
  
      {Jack snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Jack staff} (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon
            which the jack is hoisted.
  
      {Jack timber} (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or
            studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the
            others.
  
      {Jack towel}, a towel hung on a roller for common use.
  
      {Jack truss} (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where
            the roof has not its full section.
  
      {Jack tree}. (Bot.) See 1st {Jack}, n.
  
      {Jack yard} (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond
            the gaff.
  
      {Blue jack}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
  
      {Hydraulic jack}, a jack used for lifting, pulling, or
            forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic
            press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply
            of liquid, as oil.
  
      {Jack-at-a-pinch}.
            (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an
                  emergency.
            (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional
                  service for a fee.
  
      {Jack-at-all-trades}, one who can turn his hand to any kind
            of work.
  
      {Jack-by-the-hedge} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Erysimum}
            ({E. alliaria}, or {Alliaria officinalis}), which grows
            under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not
            unlike garlic. Called also, in England, {sauce-alone}.
            --Eng. Cyc.
  
      {Jack-in-a-box}.
            (a) (Bot.) A tropical tree ({Hernandia sonora}), which
                  bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated
                  calyx.
            (b) A child's toy, consisting of a box, out of which,
                  when the lid is raised, a figure springs.
            (c) (Mech.) An epicyclic train of bevel gears for
                  transmitting rotary motion to two parts in such a
                  manner that their relative rotation may be variable;
                  applied to driving the wheels of tricycles, road
                  locomotives, and to cotton machinery, etc.; an
                  equation box; a jack frame; -- called also
                  {compensating gearing}.
            (d) A large wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the
                  crosspiece of a rude press.
  
      {Jack-in-office}, an insolent fellow in authority. --Wolcott.
  
      {Jack-in-the-bush} (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit
            ({Cordia Cylindrostachya}).
  
      {Jack-in-the-green}, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework
            of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.
  
      {Jack-in-the-pulpit} (Bot.), the American plant {Aris[91]ma
            triphyllum}, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix
            is inclosed.
  
      {Jack-of-the-buttery} (Bot.), the stonecrop ({Sedum acre}).
           
  
      {Jack-of-the-clock}, a figure, usually of a man, on old
            clocks, which struck the time on the bell.
  
      {Jack-on-both-sides}, one who is or tries to be neutral.
  
      {Jack-out-of-office}, one who has been in office and is
            turned out. --Shak.
  
      {Jack the Giant Killer}, the hero of a well-known nursery
            story.
  
      {Jack-with-a-lantern}, {Jack-o'-lantern}.
            (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. [bd][Newspaper
                  speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns
                  to the future historian.[b8] --Lowell.
            (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in
                  illumination the features of a human face, etc.
  
      {Yellow Jack} (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine
            flag. See {Yellow flag}, under {Flag}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jest \Jest\, n. [OE. jeste, geste, deed, action, story, tale,
      OF. geste, LL. gesta, orig., exploits, neut. pl. from L.
      gestus, p. p. of gerere to bear, carry, accomplish, perform;
      perh. orig., to make to come, bring, and perh. akin to E.
      come. Cf. {Gest} a deed, {Register}, n.]
      1. A deed; an action; a gest. [Obs.]
  
                     The jests or actions of princes.         --Sir T.
                                                                              Elyot.
  
      2. A mask; a pageant; an interlude. [Obs.] --Nares.
  
                     He promised us, in honor of our guest, To grace our
                     banquet with some pompous jest.         --Kyd.
  
      3. Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a
            witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See
            Synonyms under {Jest}, v. i.
  
                     I must be sad . . . smile at no man's jests. --Shak.
  
                     The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his
                     memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his
                     facts.                                                --Sheridan.
  
      4. The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
  
                     Then let me be your jest; I deserve it. --Shak.
  
      {In jest}, for mere sport or diversion; not in truth and
            reality; not in earnest.
  
                     And given in earnest what I begged in jest. --Shak.
  
      {Jest book}, a book containing a collection of jests, jokes,
            and amusing anecdotes; a Joe Miller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jestful \Jest"ful\, a.
      Given to jesting; full of jokes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justifiable \Jus"ti*fi`a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. justifiable. See
      {Justify}.]
      Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.
  
               Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      Syn: Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable;
               exculpable; authorizable. -- {Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness}, n.
               -- {Jus"ti*fi`a*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justifiable \Jus"ti*fi`a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. justifiable. See
      {Justify}.]
      Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.
  
               Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      Syn: Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable;
               exculpable; authorizable. -- {Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness}, n.
               -- {Jus"ti*fi`a*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justifiable \Jus"ti*fi`a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. justifiable. See
      {Justify}.]
      Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.
  
               Just are the ways of God, An justifiable to men.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      Syn: Defensible; vindicable; warrantable; excusable;
               exculpable; authorizable. -- {Jus"ti*fi`a*ble*ness}, n.
               -- {Jus"ti*fi`a*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justification \Jus`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. justificatio: cf. F.
      justification. See {Justify}.]
      1. 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 as an essay or taste of my virtue. --Shak.
  
      2. (Law) The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason
            why a party charged or accused did that for which he is
            called to answer.
  
      3. (Theol.) The act of justifying, or the state of being
            justified, in respect to God's requirements.
  
                     Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised
                     again for our justification.               --Rom. iv. 25.
  
                     In such righteousness To them by faith imputed, they
                     may find Justification toward God, and peace Of
                     conscience.                                       --Milton.
  
      4. (Print.) Adjustment of type by spacing it so as to make it
            exactly fill a line, or of a cut so as to hold it in the
            right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making
            such adjustment.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justificative \Jus*tif"i*ca*tive\ (?; 277), a. [Cf. F.
      justificatif.]
      Having power to justify; justificatory.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justificator \Jus"ti*fi*ca`tor\, n. [LL. justificator: cf. F.
      justificateur.]
      One who justifies or vindicates; a justifier. --Johnson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justificatory \Jus*tif"i*ca*to*ry\ (?; 277), a.
      Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Justified}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Justifying}.] [F. justifier, L. justificare; justus
      just + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Just}, a., and
      {-fy}.]
      1. 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 justify the evil of
                     breaking up a government.                  --E. Everett.
  
      2. To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove
            to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to
            absolve; to exonerate; to clear.
  
                     I can not justify whom the law condemns. --Shak.
  
      3. (Theol.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to
            exculpate; to absolve.
  
                     By him all that believe are justified from all
                     things, from which ye could not be justified by the
                     law of Moses.                                    --Acts xiii.
                                                                              39.
  
      4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      5. (Print.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper
            spacing; to adjust, as type. See {Justification}, 4.
  
      Syn: To defend; maintain; vindicate; excuse; exculpate;
               absolve; exonerate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justifier \Jus"ti*fi`er\, n.
      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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Justified}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Justifying}.] [F. justifier, L. justificare; justus
      just + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Just}, a., and
      {-fy}.]
      1. 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 justify the evil of
                     breaking up a government.                  --E. Everett.
  
      2. To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove
            to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to
            absolve; to exonerate; to clear.
  
                     I can not justify whom the law condemns. --Shak.
  
      3. (Theol.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to
            exculpate; to absolve.
  
                     By him all that believe are justified from all
                     things, from which ye could not be justified by the
                     law of Moses.                                    --Acts xiii.
                                                                              39.
  
      4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      5. (Print.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper
            spacing; to adjust, as type. See {Justification}, 4.
  
      Syn: To defend; maintain; vindicate; excuse; exculpate;
               absolve; exonerate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. i.
      1. (Print.) To form an even surface or true line with
            something else; to fit exactly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. (Law)
      (a) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason
            for an act that has been made the subject of a change or
            accusation.
      (b) To qualify (one's self) as a surely by taking oath to the
            ownership of sufficient property.
  
                     The production of bail in court, who there justify
                     themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.
                                                                              --Bouvier's
                                                                              Law Dict.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Justify \Jus"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Justified}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Justifying}.] [F. justifier, L. justificare; justus
      just + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Just}, a., and
      {-fy}.]
      1. 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 justify the evil of
                     breaking up a government.                  --E. Everett.
  
      2. To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove
            to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to
            absolve; to exonerate; to clear.
  
                     I can not justify whom the law condemns. --Shak.
  
      3. (Theol.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to
            exculpate; to absolve.
  
                     By him all that believe are justified from all
                     things, from which ye could not be justified by the
                     law of Moses.                                    --Acts xiii.
                                                                              39.
  
      4. To prove; to ratify; to confirm. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      5. (Print.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper
            spacing; to adjust, as type. See {Justification}, 4.
  
      Syn: To defend; maintain; vindicate; excuse; exculpate;
               absolve; exonerate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juxtapose \Jux`ta*pose"\, v. t. [Cf. {Juxtaposit}, {Pose}.]
      To place in juxtaposition. --Huxley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juxtaposit \Jux`ta*pos"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Juxtaposited};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Juxtapositing}.] [L. juxta near + positus,
      p. p. of ponere to put.]
      To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose.
      --Derham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juxtaposit \Jux`ta*pos"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Juxtaposited};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Juxtapositing}.] [L. juxta near + positus,
      p. p. of ponere to put.]
      To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose.
      --Derham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juxtaposit \Jux`ta*pos"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Juxtaposited};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Juxtapositing}.] [L. juxta near + positus,
      p. p. of ponere to put.]
      To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose.
      --Derham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juxtaposition \Jux`ta*po*si"tion\, n. [L. juxta near + positio
      position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See {Just}, v. i., and
      {Position}.]
      A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side
      by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.
  
               Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition.
                                                                              --Glanvill.
  
               Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity.
                                                                              --Hare.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Just a Bunch Of Disks
  
      (JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Drives") A
      storage subsystems using multiple independent {disk drives},
      as opposed to one form of {RAID} or another.
  
      For example, {Unisys} open storage provides JBOD in both
      {SCSI} and {fibre channel} interfaces.
  
      {Unisys JBOD
      (http://www.marketplace.unisys.com/storage/jbod.html)}.
  
      (1998-12-21)
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Joshua, The Book of
      contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to
      that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of
      the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land
      to the different tribes, with the appointment of cities of
      refuge, the provision for the Levites (13-22), and the dismissal
      of the eastern tribes to their homes. This section has been
      compared to the Domesday Book of the Norman conquest. (3.) The
      farewell addresses of Joshua, with an account of his death (23,
      24).
     
         This book stands first in the second of the three sections,
      (1) the Law, (2) the Prophets, (3) the "other writings" =
      Hagiographa, into which the Jewish Church divided the Old
      Testament. There is every reason for concluding that the uniform
      tradition of the Jews is correct when they assign the authorship
      of the book to Joshua, all except the concluding section; the
      last verses (24:29-33) were added by some other hand.
     
         There are two difficulties connected with this book which have
      given rise to much discussion, (1.) The miracle of the standing
      still of the sun and moon on Gibeon. The record of it occurs in
      Joshua's impassioned prayer of faith, as quoted (Josh. 10:12-15)
      from the "Book of Jasher" (q.v.). There are many explanations
      given of these words. They need, however, present no difficulty
      if we believe in the possibility of God's miraculous
      interposition in behalf of his people. Whether it was caused by
      the refraction of the light, or how, we know not.
     
         (2.) Another difficulty arises out of the command given by God
      utterly to exterminate the Canaanites. "Shall not the Judge of
      all the earth do right?" It is enough that Joshua clearly knew
      that this was the will of God, who employs his terrible
      agencies, famine, pestilence, and war, in the righteous
      government of this world. The Canaanites had sunk into a state
      of immorality and corruption so foul and degrading that they had
      to be rooted out of the land with the edge of the sword. "The
      Israelites' sword, in its bloodiest executions, wrought a work
      of mercy for all the countries of the earth to the very end of
      the world."
     
         This book resembles the Acts of the Apostles in the number and
      variety of historical incidents it records, and in its many
      references to persons and places; and as in the latter case the
      epistles of Paul (see Paley's Horae Paul.) confirm its
      historical accuracy by their incidental allusions and
      "undesigned coincidences," so in the former modern discoveries
      confirm its historicity. The Amarna tablets (see ADONIZEDEC
      ¯T0000099) are among the most remarkable discoveries of the age.
      Dating from about B.C. 1480 down to the time of Joshua, and
      consisting of official communications from Amorite, Phoenician,
      and Philistine chiefs to the king of Egypt, they afford a
      glimpse into the actual condition of Palestine prior to the
      Hebrew invasion, and illustrate and confirm the history of the
      conquest. A letter, also still extant, from a military officer,
      "master of the captains of Egypt," dating from near the end of
      the reign of Rameses II., gives a curious account of a journey,
      probably official, which he undertook through Palestine as far
      north as to Aleppo, and an insight into the social condition of
      the country at that time. Among the things brought to light by
      this letter and the Amarna tablets is the state of confusion and
      decay that had now fallen on Egypt. The Egyptian garrisons that
      had held possession of Palestine from the time of Thothmes III.,
      some two hundred years before, had now been withdrawn. The way
      was thus opened for the Hebrews. In the history of the conquest
      there is no mention of Joshua having encountered any Egyptian
      force. The tablets contain many appeals to the king of Egypt for
      help against the inroads of the Hebrews, but no help seems ever
      to have been sent. Is not this just such a state of things as
      might have been anticipated as the result of the disaster of the
      Exodus? In many points, as shown under various articles, the
      progress of the conquest is remarkably illustrated by the
      tablets. The value of modern discoveries in their relation to
      Old Testament history has been thus well described:
     
         "The difficulty of establishing the charge of lack of
      historical credibility, as against the testimony of the Old
      Testament, has of late years greatly increased. The outcome of
      recent excavations and explorations is altogether against it. As
      long as these books contained, in the main, the only known
      accounts of the events they mention, there was some plausibility
      in the theory that perhaps these accounts were written rather to
      teach moral lessons than to preserve an exact knowledge of
      events. It was easy to say in those times men had not the
      historic sense. But the recent discoveries touch the events
      recorded in the Bible at very many different points in many
      different generations, mentioning the same persons, countries,
      peoples, events that are mentioned in the Bible, and showing
      beyond question that these were strictly historic. The point is
      not that the discoveries confirm the correctness of the Biblical
      statements, though that is commonly the case, but that the
      discoveries show that the peoples of those ages had the historic
      sense, and, specifically, that the Biblical narratives they
      touch are narratives of actual occurrences."
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Justification
      a forensic term, opposed to condemnation. As regards its nature,
      it is the judicial act of God, by which he pardons all the sins
      of those who believe in Christ, and accounts, accepts, and
      treats them as righteous in the eye of the law, i.e., as
      conformed to all its demands. In addition to the pardon (q.v.)
      of sin, justification declares that all the claims of the law
      are satisfied in respect of the justified. It is the act of a
      judge and not of a sovereign. The law is not relaxed or set
      aside, but is declared to be fulfilled in the strictest sense;
      and so the person justified is declared to be entitled to all
      the advantages and rewards arising from perfect obedience to the
      law (Rom. 5:1-10).
     
         It proceeds on the imputing or crediting to the believer by
      God himself of the perfect righteousness, active and passive, of
      his Representative and Surety, Jesus Christ (Rom. 10:3-9).
      Justification is not the forgiveness of a man without
      righteousness, but a declaration that he possesses a
      righteousness which perfectly and for ever satisfies the law,
      namely, Christ's righteousness (2 Cor. 5:21; Rom. 4:6-8).
     
         The sole condition on which this righteousness is imputed or
      credited to the believer is faith in or on the Lord Jesus
      Christ. Faith is called a "condition," not because it possesses
      any merit, but only because it is the instrument, the only
      instrument by which the soul appropriates or apprehends Christ
      and his righteousness (Rom. 1:17; 3:25, 26; 4:20, 22; Phil.
      3:8-11; Gal. 2:16).
     
         The act of faith which thus secures our justification secures
      also at the same time our sanctification (q.v.); and thus the
      doctrine of justification by faith does not lead to
      licentiousness (Rom. 6:2-7). Good works, while not the ground,
      are the certain consequence of justification (6:14; 7:6). (See
      GALATIANS, EPISTLE {TO}.)
     
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