Definitions
If you ought to do something, doing it is better than not doing it.
Word origin
From Middle English oughte, aughte, aȝte, ahte, from Old English āhte, first and third person singular past tense of Old English āgan (“to own, possess”), equivalent to owe + -t.
Used in a sentence
“There was a certayne lender / which had two detters / the one ought five hondred pence / and the other fifty.”
“[…]witneſſe Ariſtippus, who being vrged with the affection he ought his children, as proceeding from his loynes, began to ſpeake and ſpit[…].”
“I ought to vote in the coming election.”
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