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philofophy concerning the two principles: maintaining, 
that the fupreme God is free from all evil and imperfec¬ 
tion, and that he created the world and its inhabitants pure 
and incorrupt: that in procefs of time the prince of dark- 
iiefs, who is the fountain of all evil and mifery, enticed 
men to fin; in confequence of which, the fupreme God 
permitted them to be divefted of thole ethereal bodies 
with which he had endued them, and to fall into fluggifh 
and grofs bodies formed by the evil principle : and that 
Jefus defcended from heaven, clothed not with a real but 
aerial body, in order to recover mankind from that body 
of corruption which they now carry about them ; and»that 
he will raife the obedient to manfions of felicity, clothed 
with aerial vehicles, or celeftial bodies. Strunzius has gi¬ 
ven the hillory of the Bardefanifts. 
BAR'DEWICK, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, on the Illmenau : fuppofed to be one of 
the moft-ancient towns of Germany. It was in a very 
profperous Hate, and the fee of a bifliop, in the year 1189, 
when Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony and Brunfwick, 
took and razed it to the ground, becaufe the inhabitants 
would not acknowledge him after he had been profcribed 
by the emperor Frederic I. The bifiiopric was then re¬ 
moved to Verden; and the city of Luneberg received the 
advantages of trade and population in confequence. It is 
four miles north of Luneberg. 
BAR'DEWISCH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weltphalia, and county of Delmenhorit, fix miles north 
of Delmenhorff. 
B AR'DI, a town of Ttaly, in the Parmefan, fituated on 
a rock near the fmall river Ceno, and capital of a marqtii- 
fate, to which it gives name: twenty-fix miles weft; of 
Parma. 
BAR'DIN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segef- 
tan, thirty miles weft-fouth-weft of Zareng. 
BAR'DIS, a town of Egypt, and refidence of a fcheik, 
whole authority extends a confiderable way along the Nile. 
It is fix miles fbuth of Girge. 
BAR'DO, a town of Piedmont, in the duchy of Aofta, 
fituated-on the Doria Baltea, feventeen miles S.E. of Aofta. 
BARDONA'CHE, a town of Piedmont, in a valley, 
to which it gives name: ten miles north of Sezanne, and 
fix weft-north-weft of Exilles. 
BAR'DOP, a river of England, which runs into the 
Read, fix miles north-weft of Ellfdon in Northumberland. 
BARD'SEY, an ifland in the Irifti Sea, near tjie coaft 
of Cardigan in Wales, and north bounds of Cardigan-bay, 
twelve leagues foitth-fouth-eaft of Holyhead. Lat. 52. 58. 
N. Ion. 54. o. W. Greenwich. 
B ARDS'TOWN, a town of Kentucky, in the United 
States of North America, and chief place of the county 
of Nelfon, on the Beech-Fork river; about twenty-five 
miles from the Ohio. Lat.37.4S-N. Ion. 11. o. W. Phi¬ 
ladelphia. 
BARDT, or Barth, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Pomerania, fituated in a fmall bay in the Baltic : thir¬ 
ty-two miles north-eaft of Roftock, and twelve weft-north- 
weft of Stralfund. 
B AR'DUBITZ, or Pardubitz, a town of Bohemia, 
in the circle of Chrudim, celebrated for its manufa&ures, 
fituated on the Elbe : fix miles north of Chrudim. 
BARE, fli/j. [bare, Sax. bar, Dan.] Naked ; without 
covering.—In the old Roman ftatues, the parts were al¬ 
ways bare, and expofed to view as much as our hands and 
face. Addifon.— Uncovered in refpeft.—Though the lords 
»fed to be covered whilft the commons were bare, yet the 
commons would not be bare before the Scottilh commif- 
fioners ; and fo none were covered. Clarendon. —Unadorn¬ 
ed; plain; fimple ; without ornament: 
Yet was their manners then but bare and plain; 
For th’ antique world excefs and pride did hate. Spenfer. 
Detected ; no longer concealed : 
Thefe falfe pretexts and varnilh’d colours failing, 
Bare in thy guilt, how foul thou niuft appear. Milton, 
BAR 
Poor; indigent; wanting plenty.—Were it for the glory 
of God, that the clergy fhould be left as bare as the upof- 
tles, when they had neither ftaff nor fcrip ; God would, 
I hope, endue them with the felf-fame aftedion. Hooker... 
—Mere; unaccompanied,with ufual recommendation._ 
Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words, only through' 
a deled of knowledge; but carried, with thefe puffs 'of- 
■wind, contrary toknowledge. South. —/Threadbare ; much 
worn.—You have an exchequer of words, and no other 
treafure for your followers ; for, it appears, by their bare 
liveries, that they live by your bare words., Shakefpeare .—. 
Wanting clothes ; flenderly fupplied with clothes. Some¬ 
times it has of before the thing wanted or taken away : 
Tempt not the brave and needy to defpair; 
For, though your violence fhould leave them bare 
Of gold and filver, fwords and darts remain. Dryden. 
“ Bare walls make giddy (or rather idle) houfewives.” 
That is, when women have no work at home, they are 
apt to gad abroad in queft of diverfton; and fo in’ time 
contrad a habit of idlenefs. The French fay, Vuides - 
chambrcs font les dames folks \ much to the fame purpofe. 
The Latins fay, Haudfacile emer'gunt quorum virtutibus obfai 
res angufa domi. 
Bare, an ifland in the South Pacific Ocean, near the 
eaft coaft of New Ireland. It is high land, not fertile, 
but inhabited. Lat. 39. 36. S. 
To Bare, v. a. To (irip ; to make bare or naked : 
For virtue, when I point the pen, 
Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a (far; 
Can there be wanting, to defend her caufe, 
Lights o£ the church, or guardians of the laws ? Pope. 
The Roman women, in times of public diftrefs and 
mourning, went bare-headed, with their hair loofe. A- 
mong both Greeks, Romans, and barbarians, we find a 
feaft called Nudipedalia. The Abyflinians always enter 
their churches bare-foot; fo they do the palaces of kings 
and great men. Barefoot Carmelites and Augufines, are re¬ 
ligious of the order of St. Carmel and St. Auftin, who 
live under a ftrid obfervance, and go without fhoes like 
the capuchins. There are alfo barefoot fathers of mercy. 
Formerly there were barefoot dominicans, and even bare¬ 
foot nuns of the order of St. Auguftin. 
Bare, or Bore. The preterite of To Bear. 
B A'REBONE,y. [from bare and bone.'] Lean, fo that 
the bones appear.—Here comes lean Jack, here comes 
barebone. Shahefpeare. 
BARE'E, a province of Hindoftan, in the country of 
Lahore, between the rivers Rauvee, Beyah, and Setledge. 
BA'REFACED, adj. [from bare and facef With the 
face naked; not malked.—Your French crowns have no 
hair at all, and then you will play barefaced. Shakefpeare. 
—Shamelefs ; unreferved; without concealment; undif- 
guifed.—It is moft certain, that barefaced bawdry is the 
pooreft pretence to wit imaginable. Dryden. 
BAREFA'CEDLY, Openly; ffeamefully ; with¬ 
out difguife.—Though only fome profligate wretches own 
it too barefacedly, yet, perhaps we fhould hear more, did 
no t fear tie people’s tongues. Locke. 
BAREFA'CEDNESS, f. Effrontery; affurance; au- 
dacioufnefs. 
BA'REFOOT, adj. [from bare an&foot.] Having no 
fhoes.—Going to find a barefoot brother out. Shakefpeare . 
Barefoot, adv. Without fhoes : 
Ambitious love hath fo in me offended, 
That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon 
With fainted vow. Shakefpeare. 
B AREFOOT'ED, adj. Being without fhoes.—He him- 
felf, with a rope about his neck, barefooted, came to offer 
himfelf to the diferetion of Leonatus. Sidney. 
BAREGNAWN 1 , arf/'. [from bare and gnazon.'] Eaten 
bare: 
Know my name is loft, 
By treafon’s tooth baregnawn and cankerbit. Shakefpeare. 
BAREHEAD'ED, 
