Due

Definition of Due

a.	1.	Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
	2.	Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit. Her obedience, which is due to me. - Shak. With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. - Gray.
	3.	Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.
	4.	Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.
	5.	Owing; ascribable, as to a cause. This effect is due to the attraction of the sun. - J. D. Forbes.
adv.	1.	Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.
n.	1.	That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. He will give the devil his due. - Shak. Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. - Tennyson.
	2.	Right; just title or claim. The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep. - Milton.
v. t.	1.	To endue.

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