The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-09-19
SynOnynnes
A. M.
BARE, NAKED, UNCOVERED:

BARE, NAKED, UNCOVEhED:
Bare from German bar, pure, or from
the Hebrew parah to lay bare.
.Naked-it is hard to give its exact
derivation; it is like the old Saxon nae
ed, the low German naaket, the Latin
nudus, or it may be derived from the
welsh noeth, or the Irish nochto, open,
nochduigham, naked stripped, from noch-
duigham, to strip.
Bare, marks the condition of being
without some particular covering, ma
ked being without any covering. Bare
is therefore often substituted for make
to certain degree. We speak of bare
headed, barefoot; to expose the bare
arm, but figure is naked, or the body
is naked.
Though the Lords used to be covered whilst the
Commons were bare. before the Scottish Com
missioners and so none where corered.-claren
don.
He plying how they stood
Before him naked to the air, that now
Must suffer change
AS father of his family he clad
Their qldkedness with skins of beasts.-Mil-
ton
When applied to other objects; bare
conveys the idea of particular want;
naked of a general want: as the bare
ground, the bare walls, a bare house,
where the idea of want in certain
particular is felt, but naked walls, ma
ked fields, naked appearance, denote
the absence of covering that is usual or
general. Bare in this sense is often
followed by the object that is wanted,
naked is mostly used as an adjunct. A
tree is bare of leaves; this constitutes it
a naked tree.
The story of Aeneas. on which vergil founded
his poem. was very bare of circumstances.-Ad-
olson.
Why turn st thou from me? am alone already;
Methinks I stand upon a naked beach.
Signing to winds. and to the seas complaining.
-Otway.
To preserve the same analogy in their
figurative application, bare sufficiency
is that which scarcely suffices; the
naked truth is that which has nothing
about it to intercept the view of it from
the mind.
Christ and the apostles did most earnestly in
culcate the belief of his Godhead, and accepted
men upon the bare acknowledgment of this
South.
The truth appears so naked on my side
That any purblind eye may find it out.-Shake-.
spere
naked and uncovered bear a strong
likeness to each other. To be naked is
in fact to have the body uncovered, but
many things are uncovered that are not
naked. Nothing is said to be naked but
what in the nature of things, or ac-
cording to the usages of men ought to
be covered. Everything is uncovered
from which the cover is removed.
According to our natural sentiments
of decency, we expect to see the naked
body covered with clothing, the naked
tree covered with leaves, the naked
wall covered by paper or paint. On
the other hand we leave plants uneouer-
ed that they may have the benifit of the
sun or rain; furniture is left uncorered
to suit the convenience of the user, or
a person may be unc0uered, in the sense
of 6areheaded, on certain occasions. So
in the moral application, what is naked
is without the ordinary OR necessary
covering, what is uncovered is simply
without any covering.
Not that God doth require nothing unto happi-
ness at the hands of men, saving only naked
belief for hope and charity we may not exclude
-Hooke.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our
whole inter nal frame is uncovered, dispositions
hold the place of actions.-Blair.