a. - To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.
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.
a. - To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.
a. - To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
a. - To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.
v. i. - To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.
v. i. - To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.
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.
v. t. - To qualify (one's self) as a surely by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.