Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10395 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prescrib'dprescribed

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 142 times in 97 works
Consistency: 98.6% (142 of 144)
Reach if approved: ~151 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: prescribed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 144 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (142 changes in 97 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 142)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by how much we are the more thus bound; When we affect to be prescrib'dprescribed to, and are become patient of Government, not apt to chafe at the bridle …
With rule
… by how much we are the more thus bound; When we affect to be prescrib'dprescribed to, and are become patient of Government, not apt to chafe at the bridle …
John Howe · Delighting in God · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Rule, leaſt they being found not to Worſhip the Lord according to his preſcrib'dprescribed Order he make a Breach amongſt them, neither are you preſented with any new …
With rule
… the Rule, leaſt they being found not to Worſhip the Lord according to his preſcrib'dprescribed Order he make a Breach amongſt them, neither are you preſented with any new …
William Kiffin · Discourse of Right to Church-Communion · Open in the reader
Printed
Unlicenc't from his bounds in Hell prescrib'dprescribed;
With rule
Unlicenc't from his bounds in Hell prescrib'dprescribed;
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
… for Deliverance, was better than that troublesome way of Repentance and Reformation, which he prescrib'dprescribed unto them. But he knew from whom he had his Message, and that would …
With rule
… for Deliverance, was better than that troublesome way of Repentance and Reformation, which he prescrib'dprescribed unto them. But he knew from whom he had his Message, and that would …
John Owen · Testimony Unto the Goodness and Severity of God · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fantastic patients we are well enough content to have our disease discourst, and medicines prescrib'dprescribed, but when the Physic comes, have still some pretence or other to protract the …
With rule
… fantastic patients we are well enough content to have our disease discourst, and medicines prescrib'dprescribed, but when the Physic comes, have still some pretence or other to protract the …
Richard Allestree · The Art of Contentment · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
… careful to observe the institutions of Christ, and all his Ordinances as he hath prescrib'dprescribed. Hear, Read, Receive the Sacraments as he hath appointed, waiting for the Spirit, who …
With rule
… careful to observe the institutions of Christ, and all his Ordinances as he hath prescrib'dprescribed. Hear, Read, Receive the Sacraments as he hath appointed, waiting for the Spirit, who …
Thomas Adams · The Main Principles of the Christian Religion in 107 Articles · p. XIV · Open in the reader
Printed
… abſtinence from intemperate Courſes, not becauſe the holineſs of God in his Law hath preſcrib'dprescribed it, but becauſe the health of our Bodies, or ſome noble Contentments of life …
With rule
… abſtinence from intemperate Courſes, not becauſe the holineſs of God in his Law hath preſcrib'dprescribed it, but becauſe the health of our Bodies, or ſome noble Contentments of life …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 559 · Open in the reader
Printed
… told to a Patient, That he will certainly die, if he takes not the preſcrib'dprescribed Phyſick: And yet who will ſay that this Threatning is any part of the …
With rule
… told to a Patient, That he will certainly die, if he takes not the preſcrib'dprescribed Phyſick: And yet who will ſay that this Threatning is any part of the …
Thomas Goodwin · The True Nature of the Gospel · p. 54 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
Prescrib'dPrescribed, no barrs of Hell, nor all the chains
With rule
Prescrib'dPrescribed, no barrs of Hell, nor all the chains
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader