those forms of expression in which _be_ is proper; as, "_Beware_ of dogs,
_beware_ of evil workers, _beware_ of the concision."--_Philippians_, iii,
2. "But we _must beware_[297] of carrying our attention to this beauty too
far."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 119. These words were formerly separated: as,
"Of whom _be_ thou _ware_ also."--_1 Tim._, iv, 15. "They _were ware_ of
it."--FRIENDS' BIBLE, and ALGER'S: _Acts_, xiii, 6. "They were _aware_ of
it."--SCOTT'S BIBLE: ib. "And in an hour _that_ he is not _ware_ of
him."--_Johnson's Dict., w. Ware_. "And in an hour that he is not _aware_
of."--COMMON BIBLES: _Matt._, xxiv, 50. "Bid her well _be ware_ and still
erect."--MILTON: _in Johnson's Dict._ "That even Silence _was took_ ere she
_was ware_."--_Id., Comus_, line 558. The adjective _ware_ is now said to
be "_obsolete_;" but the propriety of this assertion depends upon that of
forming such a defective verb. What is the use of doing so?

"This to disclose is all thy guardian can;
_Beware_ of all, but most _beware_ of man."--_Pope_.

The words written separately will always have the same meaning, unless we
omit the preposition _of_, and suppose the compound to be a _transitive_
verb. In this case, the argument for compounding the terms appears to be
valid; as,

"_Beware_ the public _laughter_ of the town;
Thou springst a-leak already in thy crown."--_Dryden_.

OBS. 4. The words _ought_ and _own_, without question, were originally
parts of the redundant verb _to owe_; thus: _owe, owed_ or _ought, owing,
owed_ or _own_. But both have long been disjoined from this connexion, and
hence _owe_ has become regular. _Own_, as now used, is either a pronominal
adjective, as, "my _own_ hand," or a regular verb thence derived, as, "to
_own_ a house." _Ought_, under the name of a _defective verb_, is now
generally thought to be properly used, in this one form, in all the persons
and numbers of the present and the imperfect tense of the indicative and
subjunctive moods. Or, if it is really of one tense only, it is plainly an
aorist; and hence the time must be specified by the infinitive that
follows: as, "He _ought_ to _go_; He _ought_ to _have gone_." "If thou
_ought_ to _go_; If thou _ought_ to _have gone_." Being originally a
preterit, it never occurs in the infinitive mood, and is entirely
invariable, except in the solemn style, where we find _oughtest_ in both
tenses; as, "How thou _oughtest_ to _behave_ thyself."--_1 T