Justify
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) 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.
(2): ( a.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
(3): ( a.) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
(4): ( a.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
(5): ( v. i.) To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.
(6): ( a.) To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.
(7): ( v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
(8): ( v. t.) 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.
(9): ( v. t.) To qualify (one's self) as a surely by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
King James Dictionary [2]
JUST'IFY, L. justus, just,and facio, to make.
1. To prove or show to be just, or conformable to law, right, justice, propriety or duty to defend or maintain to vindicate as right. We cannot justify disobedience or ingratitude to our Maker. We cannot justify insult or incivility to our fellow men. Intemperance, lewdness, profaneness and dueling are in no case to be justified. 2. In theology, to pardon and clear form guilt to absolve or acquit from guilt and merited punishment, and to accept as righteous on account of the merits of the Savior, or by the application of Christ's atonement to the offender. 3. To cause another to appear comparatively righteous, or less guilty than one's self. Ezekiel 16 . 4. To judge rightly of.
Wisdom is justified by her children. Matthew 11
5. To accept as just and treat with favor. James 2 .
JUST'IFY, In printing, to agree to suit to conform exactly to form an even surface or true line with something else. Types of different sizes will not justify with each other.
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [3]
The act of God's free grace, whereby he freely pardons the sinner, and justifies him in Christ notwithstanding all his own unworthiness and transgressions; delivering him both from the guilt of sin, the dominion of sin, and the punishment due to sin; accepting him in Christ, and thus blessing him in and through the finished salvation of Jesus Christ our Lord. ( Galatians 3:8)
See Impute
