aught, naught, naughty. ore, brook, raiment, habilitate

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(14) It is naught, saith the buyer.Then he boasteth.「買物的說不好，不好，及至買去，他便自誇。」(箴言二十：14)

Don Juan: CANTO THE TENTH

LXXIX

Alas, how deeply painful is all payment!

Take lives, take wives, take aught except men's purses:

As Machiavel shows those in purple raiment,

Such is the shortest way to general curses.

They hate a murderer much less than a claimant

On that sweet ore which every body nurses; --

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,

But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

唉呀! 凡是付款全都令人心痛!
性命、老婆  什麼都可以任人拿
除了錢袋， Machiavel 對王侯說
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"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
--from MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville

"Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?" by James Joyce

Dear heart, why will you use me so?
Dear eyes that gently me upbraid,
Still are you beautiful -- - but O, 
How is your beauty raimented!

working on my habilitation thesis on modern Chinese conservatism.

habilitate
Meaning #1: qualify for teaching at a university in Europe
Meaning #2: provide with clothes or put clothes on
v.intr.
To qualify oneself for a post or office.

[Medieval Latin habilitāre, habilitāt-, to enable, from Latin habilis, able. See habile.]

aught
also pron.
Anything whatever: “Neither of his parents had aught but praise for him” (Louis Auchincloss).
adv.
Archaic. In any respect; at all.

[Middle English, from Old English āuht.]

aught² also ought (ôt)
n.

1. A cipher; zero.
2. Archaic. Nothing.

[From an aught, alteration of a naught. See naught.]

raiment 

Pronunciation: /ˈreɪm(ə)nt/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN] (also raiments) archaic or literary

Clothing:ladies clothed in raiment bedecked with jewels

naught

nɔːt/

pronoun

archaic

1. 1.

   nothing.

   "he's naught but a worthless fool"

   synonyms:

   nothing, nothing at all, nought, nil, zero; More

noun

NORTH AMERICAN

1. 1.

   variant spelling of nought.

naughty

ˈnɔːti/

adjective

1. 1.

   (especially of a child) badly behaved; disobedient.

   "you've been a really naughty boy"
2. 2.

   informal

   mildly rude or indecent, typically because related to sex.

   "naughty goings-on"

ore
n.
A mineral or an aggregate of minerals from which a valuable constituent, especially a metal, can be profitably mined or extracted.

[Middle English, from Old English ōra and from Old English ār, brass, copper, bronze.]

brook
n. Chiefly Northeastern U.S.
See creek (sense 1). See Regional Note at run.

[Middle English, from Old English brōc.]

brook² (brʊk)
tr.v., brooked, brook·ing, brooks.
To put up with; tolerate: We will brook no further argument.

[Middle English brouken, from Old English brūcan, to use, enjoy.]