Ought /(a̤t)/
Ought
n. & adv.
- See Aught.
Ought
imp., p. p., [or] auxiliary
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Was or were under obligation to pay; owed. [Obs.]
This due obedience which they ought to the king.
The love and duty I long have ought you.
[He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound.
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Owned; possessed. [Obs.]
The knight the which that castle ought.
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To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.
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To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.
To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things?