Definition of justify

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Justify (v. i.) To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.

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Scaleboard :: Scaleboard (n.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify..
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To justify; to furnish a ground for.
Justificative :: Justificative (a.) Having power to justify; justificatory.
Vindicatory :: Vindicatory (a.) Tending or serving to vindicate or justify; justificatory; vindicative.
Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit..
Aver :: Aver (v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
Justification :: "Justification (n.) 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..
Subterrane :: Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion..
Justify :: Justify (a.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
Averment :: Averment (v. t.) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed..
Justification :: "Justification (n.) The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements..
Avow :: Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry..
Justifying :: Justifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Justif.
Justify :: Justify (a.) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority..
Justify :: Justify (v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it..
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