Just

Use in the book

The substantial books of earlier physicians first belong to an objection Burton stages against himself. A reader may ask why another account of melancholy is needed when excellent physicians have already written full-length volumes and elaborate tracts. Their scale strengthens the charge of needless repetition. Burton’s surrounding confession of borrowing must be read as part of that defence of his undertaking, not as a definition of just that automatically praises originality or truth. Action, especially actum agere · local use 1, explains the accompanying idiom for doing work already done.

Substantial specialist writing also supplies a reason to include a subject. At the opening of the symptoms attributed to unmarried women, nuns and widows, Burton names Mercatus and Rodericus à Castro, then adds Sennertus and others, while still saying two just Treatises. Their separate treatment warrants a place in his general survey. The edition preserves that awkward count rather than silently making the books as numerous as the named writers. Its accompanying theory of a cause peculiar to women belongs to the historical medical account; the adjective means full treatment, not proof of that theory.

Disagreement can be expressed in a just work as readily as agreement. Libavius opposes the weapon-salve claim in a full treatise, while Crollius and Goclenius defend it. In the air digression Biancani argues at length that the sea will eventually cover the earth, but Burton calls his fear foolish, invites his friends to laugh, and counters that the sea adds elsewhere what it removes. The extent of the tract and Burton’s judgment of its argument are separate. Characters discusses the disputed cures and their proposed imaginative explanation; just here names the scale of the written opposition.

Harsnett’s Declaration is a substantial volume published at home, brought forward as a domestic counterpart to reports of fraudulent saintly cures abroad. Burton takes the book’s side and condemns the alleged exorcisms as tricks for credit and money. Just itself supplies neither that accusation nor a guarantee of its truth. The cited publication year remains 1605 in the original margin; the editor identifies the work’s first appearance as 1603 and leaves the issue-level question open. Obsession and possession gives the wider distinction between attributed possession, pretence and polemical suspicion.

A just volume need not be an existing book. To set out the varieties of unbelief and their arguments individually would require one, Burton says, and he therefore refers readers to theologians. The hypothetical scale explains a limit on his own exposition. The neighbouring large volume attributed to Lagalla reinforces the size sense. Outside book descriptions, a just army becomes a whole army of Rosicrucian reformers; the parenthetic they say keeps their promise to put everything right at a distance.

Proper extent can also concern an action’s adequacy. The physician who fails to prescribe a just course works too casually, stirring a humour without completing the proposed treatment. The next paragraph restores the other danger: most practitioners err by giving too much medicine. In the fear argument, meanwhile, an imagined objector says a person above deep water has a just cause for fear. Burton answers that the melancholic sufferer has an inward cause. Just distinguishes a ground for fear, not suffering deserving blame; Fear and Physician explain the respective arguments.

Two familiar uses make the grammatical distinction clear. The self-governing wise person is just and right, morally upright, in Burton’s English verse after Horace; the next unit asks whether such an ideal person can be found. By contrast, just so many ounces is adverbial: exactly that quantity. It occurs in the criticism of overprecise diet, qualified in the continuation as unsuitable for healthier bodies. The passage reports excessive prescription rather than supplying a quantity for the reader to follow.

Related entries

Absolute, for completeness and perfection rather than simply a work’s substantial scale. Cause, especially just cause on just cause as legitimate ground; Fear; Characters; Obsession and possession; Physician; Diet and regimen.

Places to read

1. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 12–14prior full-length volumes within the imagined objection to repetition.
2. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 20–22uprightness in the ideal of self-command, then its skeptical application.
3. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 25–27a whole army of would-be reformers and the distancing they say.
4. Subsection 2 The Quantity of Food as a Cause · paragraphs 32–36exact quantities in the criticism of excessive dietary regulation.
5. Subsection 2. The Power of Imagination · paragraphs 26–28Libavius’s full treatise against the weapon-salve claim.
6. Subsection 4 Symptoms of Melancholy in Unmarried Women, Nuns and Widows · paragraphs 27–29two full medical treatises and the preserved count.
7. Member 3 Immediate Cause of the Preceding Symptoms · paragraphs 25–26, 1the objector’s just cause for fear and Burton’s inward-cause reply.
8. Member 3. Whether It Is Lawful to Seek the Saints' Help in This Disease · paragraphs 36–38Harsnett’s substantial volume, with the printed 1605 and editorial 1603 distinguished.
9. Member 4. Subsection 1. Physician, Patient, Medicine · paragraphs 14–17adequate treatment between incompleteness and excess.
10. Member 3. Air Corrected. With a Digression on Air · paragraphs 4–6Biancani’s substantial tract and Burton’s ridicule.
11. Member 2 Subsection 1 Religious Melancholy From Deficiency: Those Affected—Epicures, Atheists, Hypocrites, the Worldly and Complacent, Carnalists, All Impious People, Impenitent Sinners, and Others · paragraphs 21–23a hypothetical full volume and referral to other writers.

In this edition

Just Volumes becomes full-length volumes; two just Treatises becomes two full treatises; a just volume becomes a substantial volume. These equivalents make scale explicit without determining approval. In a just tract proves is instead recast as argues at length. At length represents the developed written treatment, while argues belongs to proves; it is not the meaning of just by itself. In Libavius’s clause, the modern just as firmly translates as stifly, whereas original just Tract becomes full treatise.

Proper course of treatment, retained just cause for fear, retained just beside upright, and exactly so many ounces give separate modern access routes for adequacy, sufficient grounds, morality and exactness. They should not be folded into the book-size sense. The original’s volumn is a spelling of volume, not a different kind of work; the selected evidence retains that spelling alongside modern full volume.

The supplied note identifies the invitation to laugh as Horace, Art of Poetry 5, and leaves the accounts of Bruno and Biancani as Burton’s summaries pending direct collation.

just: full or substantial

Of full, substantial or proper extent; applied chiefly to written treatments, and also to a whole body of people. The adjective measures scale, not agreement with the contents.

Grammar: Attributive adjective just before singular and plural nouns: Volumes, army, Tract, Treatises, volume, tract and volumn.

Component sense: volumn. Noun component: volume is the modern spelling of volumn; it is not the full/substantial meaning supplied by just..

Component sense: in a just tract proves. Contextual recasting of the complete construction: at length expresses the substantial written treatment, while argues renders proves. Neither verb is a synonym of just alone..

Component sense: as stifly. Comparison component: as firmly, reinforced by modern just. This is distinct from the original adjective just before Tract..

Component access (volumn): Noun component: volume is the modern spelling of volumn; it is not the full/substantial meaning supplied by just.

Component access (volume): Noun component: volume is the modern spelling of volumn; it is not the full/substantial meaning supplied by just.

Component access (in a just tract proves): Contextual recasting of the complete construction: at length expresses the substantial written treatment, while argues renders proves. Neither verb is a synonym of just alone.

Component access (argues at length): Contextual recasting of the complete construction: at length expresses the substantial written treatment, while argues renders proves. Neither verb is a synonym of just alone.

Component access (as stifly): Comparison component: as firmly, reinforced by modern just. This is distinct from the original adjective just before Tract.

Component access (just as firmly): Comparison component: as firmly, reinforced by modern just. This is distinct from the original adjective just before Tract.

Original text: “just Volumes”. In the modern column: “full-length volumes”. Books of substantial extent establish the apparent redundancy of another work on melancholy. The clause occurs in the anticipated reader objection introduced by you will infer, not an unconditional authorial admission of uselessness. Just supplies full-length; Volumes supplies volumes.

Original text: “a just army of Rosie crosse men”. In the modern column: “a whole army of Rosicrucians”. The fullness or size sense extends from books to an imagined body of reformers. They say places the promise of universal reform at an ironic distance; Burton is not verifying a Rosicrucian army. Just supplies whole; army remains army. The name of the reformers is outside the lexical component. Complementary earlier route: Matter. Matter already explains all matters in the reformers’ promise; shared scene, not a new historical event.

Original text: “in a just Tract as stifly contradicts”. In the modern column: “just as firmly opposes in a full treatise”. Libavius offers a developed written opposition to the weapon-salve claim. Crollius and Goclenius defend the claim; Libavius contradicts it. The next unit gives imagination and belief as the explanation of charm effects. Just Tract supplies full treatise. The modern just in just as firmly instead belongs to as stifly and must not be indexed as the translation of the adjective. Complementary earlier route: Characters. Characters already explains the cure claims and adjoining dispute; this record selects the opposing treatise’s scale.

Original text: “two just Treatises”. In the modern column: “two full treatises”. Substantial specialist discussions warrant inclusion of a separate symptom survey. Burton names Mercatus, Rodericus à Castro, Sennertus and others while retaining the count two. An accompanying note does not authorize silently changing that count; the gender-specific disease theory is historical. Just supplies full, Treatises supplies treatises, and two remains two.

Original text: “a just volume published at home”. In the modern column: “a substantial volume has been published here at home”. The polemical book is offered as a substantial domestic source of alleged fraudulent possession. Burton endorses the accusation as mere impostures. It is his anti-Catholic argument, not independently established guilt; the accompanying note distinguishes the printed 1605 from the work’s first appearance in 1603. Just supplies substantial; volume and the publication location remain separate components. Complementary earlier route: Obsession and possession. Obsession and possession already treats pretended to be possessed in this exact Harsnett passage; passive attribution does not establish each sufferer’s conscious pretence. Just supplies the separate book-extent meaning.

Original text: “in a just tract proves by many circumstances”. In the modern column: “argues at length, with much supporting evidence”. A lengthy account is attributed to Biancani even as its conclusion is mocked. Biancani is the reported advocate; foolishly fears and the following invitation to laugh express Burton’s rejection. The preceding would examine/test frames the excursion. The whole construction is recast: in a just tract contributes at length; proves becomes argues; by many circumstances becomes with much supporting evidence. Just alone does not mean argues.

Original text: “would require a just volumn”. In the modern column: “would require a full volume”. The scale of an unwritten survey becomes a reason for referring readers to other writers. Would require is hypothetical, not a claim that Burton has written this volume. His praise of theological refutation is qualified by if it could be done and often little effect. Just supplies full and volumn is the printed spelling of volume. Complementary earlier route: Religious melancholy. Religious melancholy already explains the conditional hoped-for outcome in the same referral; the full-volume sense is distinct.

just: proper or adequate

Properly sufficient for the intended purpose; here a course of treatment that is neither perfunctory nor incomplete.

Grammar: Attributive adjective modifying course in a just course of Physick.

Original text: “a just course of Physick”. In the modern column: “a proper course of treatment”. The criticism concerns failure to give an adequate course, especially stirring the humour without completing the proposed evacuation. Sometimes limits the initial charge; the next paragraph says most err in the opposite direction by excessive medication. This is historical medicine, not a recommendation to purge. Just supplies proper, course remains course, and Physick supplies treatment. Complementary earlier route: Physician. Physician already treats the same paired professional errors; present record explains just rather than the practitioner.

just: well-grounded

Supported by a sufficient ground or occasion; in the fear argument it qualifies the external reason alleged by an imagined objector.

Grammar: Attributive adjective in a just cause to fear.

Original text: “such men have a just cause to fear, a true object of fear”. In the modern column: “such people have a just cause for fear, a real object of fear”. The objector contrasts fear on a high plank with melancholy; Burton replies that the latter has an internal cause too. You infer/you argue marks the objection. Burton does not concede that melancholy has no cause: his answer insists that suffering cannot simply be commanded away while its cause remains. Just is retained; to fear becomes for fear. The following true object clarifies the proposed external ground. Complementary earlier route: Fear. Fear already explains the response about an inward cause; Cause just cause owns just cause in the war comparison, a different local application.

just: upright

Morally right or righteous; a quality attributed to the self-governing wise person.

Grammar: Predicative adjective in Burton’s English verse restatement, paired with right.

Component sense: right. Moral adjective component: upright renders right beside retained just; the two original adjectives remain distinct..

Component access (right): Moral adjective component: upright renders right beside retained just; the two original adjectives remain distinct.

Component access (upright): Moral adjective component: upright renders right beside retained just; the two original adjectives remain distinct.

Original text: “Checks his desires, scorns honours, just and right.” In the modern column: “Who checks his desires, scorns honours, and is just and upright.” The English verse sets justice beside command of desires and independence from honours. The first four original lines quote Horace; the following English lines are Burton’s restatement. The next unit asks where such a person can be found and turns the ideal against ordinary humanity. Just is retained; right becomes upright. The two adjectives are not a translation of the nearby Latin as a single word.

just: exactly

Precisely, without increase or decrease, in a numerical prescription.

Grammar: Adverb modifying so many in just so many ounces.

Original text: “just so many ounces at dinner”. In the modern column: “exactly so many ounces at dinner”. The rigid dinner quantity illustrates excessive precision in diet. Burton criticizes overstrict regulation for sounder bodies in the continuation; the clause is not his own dosage recommendation or a rejection of every dietary distinction. Adverb just gives exactly; the quantity remains unspecified as so many ounces. Complementary earlier route: Diet and regimen. Diet and regimen already treats this restrictive setting and its medicinal drink; just adds the exactness relation.