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justify
English
Alternative forms
- justifie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English justifien, from Old French justifier, from Late Latin justificare (“make just”), from Latin justus, iustus (“just”) + ficare (“make”), from facere, equivalent to just +? -ify.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??st?fa?/
- Hyphenation: jus?ti?fy
Verb
justify (third-person singular simple present justifies, present participle justifying, simple past and past participle justified)
- (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
- Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
- (transitive) To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
- Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
- 1861, Edward Everett, The Great Issues Now Before the Country, An oration delivered at the New York Academy of Music, July 4, 1861, New York: James G. Gregory, p. 8,[1]
- Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government, under an abstract constitutional right to do so.
- (transitive) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- The text will look better justified.
- (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Acts 13.39,[3]
- And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- (reflexive) To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
- She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 16.15,[4]
- And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
- 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 13,[5]
- […] I was equally unable to justify myself and unwilling to acknowledge my errors […]
- To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act V, Scene 1,[6]
- She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,
- By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;
- When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge
- She is thy very princess.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act I, Scene 2,[7]
- […] say
- My wife’s a hobby-horse, deserves a name
- As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
- Before her troth-plight: say’t and justify’t.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act V, Scene 1,[6]
- (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
- (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- 1839, John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union, Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, Volume I, p. 557,[8]
- JUSTIFYING BAIL, practice, is the production of bail in court, who there justify themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.
- 1839, John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union, Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, Volume I, p. 557,[8]
Related terms
- -fy
- just
- justification
- justifiable
- justifiably
- unjustified
Translations
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bottom
English
Alternative forms
- botton (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek ?????? (puthm?n, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit ????? (budhna, “bottom”), Persian ??? (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the “verb to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?t?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?t?m/, [?b???m]
Noun
bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)
- The lowest part of anything.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, chapter 19
- a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out}}
- No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- Coordinate term: top
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- a soda and a bottom of brandy
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, chapter 19
- (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 71:
- The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.
- 1812, Amos Stoddard, Sketches of Louisiana
- the bottoms and the high grounds
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 71:
- (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The buttocks or anus.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- An abyss.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- November 8, 1773, [first name not given] Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy
- Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
- November 8, 1773, [first name not given] Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (gay slang) A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
- (particle physics) A bottom quark.
- Hypernym: flavor
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.
- (obsolete) Power of endurance.
- (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Synonyms
- (lowest part): base
- (buttocks, British, euphemistic): sit upon, derriere, ????
- (BDSM, gay): catcher
Antonyms
- (lowest part): top
- (BDSM, gay): top
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? French: bottom
Translations
Verb
bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
- to bottom a chair
- (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio, III.2:
- As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, First Folio, III.2:
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 26:
- But an absurd opinion concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
- those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
- 2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59:
- Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 26:
- (transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
- 1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
- My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.
- 1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
- 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
- Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.
- 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
- (BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
- (gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
- I've never bottomed in my life.
Derived terms
- bottom out
Translations
Adjective
bottom (not comparable)
- The lowest or last place or position.
- Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
Translations
See also
- bottommost
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English bottom.
Adjective
bottom (plural bottoms)
- (LGBT, slang) bottom (passive in role)
Synonyms
- passif
Portuguese
Noun
bottom m (plural bottons)
- button (a badge worn on clothes)
- Synonym: botão
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