Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11014 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

commaundedcommanded

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 6,680 times in 710 works
Consistency: 99.7% (6,680 of 6,695)
Reach if approved: ~7,035 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: commanded
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 6,695 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6,680 changes in 710 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 6,680)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is, whether that which is commended, or discommended in some proper person, be not commaundedcommanded or forbidden to all; if it be, the vse of it is generall, not …
With rule
… is, whether that which is commended, or discommended in some proper person, be not commaundedcommanded or forbidden to all; if it be, the vse of it is generall, not …
Richard Greenham · Propositions Containing Answers in Divers Spiritual Matters · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee alone ſo loued, feared, reuerenced, &c. In this commaundement therefore we are firſte commaundedcommanded the true knowledge of one true God, then the confidence and loue & feare, &c …
With rule
… hee alone ſo loued, feared, reuerenced, &c. In this commaundement therefore we are firſte commaundedcommanded the true knowledge of one true God, then the confidence and loue & feare, &c …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader
Printed
… of our actions, can be acceptable to God, (even although they be the actions commaundedcommanded by God) unleſſe beleeving we doe them by …aith, yea not onely are they …
With rule
… of our actions, can be acceptable to God, (even although they be the actions commaundedcommanded by God) unleſſe beleeving we doe them by …aith, yea not onely are they …
John Forbes · A Fruitful Sermon · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… commoditie of christes Sacramentes, nor yet the studie, and practise of all good woorkes, commaundedcommanded of God, but rather established them: when we teache, that the Sacramentes are seales …
With rule
… commoditie of christes Sacramentes, nor yet the studie, and practise of all good woorkes, commaundedcommanded of God, but rather established them: when we teache, that the Sacramentes are seales …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader
Printed
… required, the Papistes ioyne works of Superero…ation, which are such as God neuer commaundedcommanded, and preferre them as much more meritorious, then any workes which God hath prescribed …
With rule
… required, the Papistes ioyne works of Superero…ation, which are such as God neuer commaundedcommanded, and preferre them as much more meritorious, then any workes which God hath prescribed …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Creation, The Euening and the Morning were the first day. The Iewes were commaundedcommanded to begin their Feast of Reconciliation at Euen; and, From Euening to Euening, shall …
With rule
… the Creation, The Euening and the Morning were the first day. The Iewes were commaundedcommanded to begin their Feast of Reconciliation at Euen; and, From Euening to Euening, shall …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the fleſh, but came of one of thoſe curſed Nations, which God had commaundedcommanded the Children of Iſrael to roote out and deſtroy, yet I ſay ſhe was …
With rule
… to the fleſh, but came of one of thoſe curſed Nations, which God had commaundedcommanded the Children of Iſrael to roote out and deſtroy, yet I ſay ſhe was …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we doubt where he readeth of any worship commaundedcommanded in the generall, and not commaundedcommanded but only allowed in the particular he informeth us, that in the free-will …
With rule
… we doubt where he readeth of any worship commaundedcommanded in the generall, and not commaundedcommanded but only allowed in the particular he informeth us, that in the free-will …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 93 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law A00634

Printed
5 CommaundedCommanded forbidden) So that euerie precept doeth not onely commaunde the good, or forbid the …
With rule
5 CommaundedCommanded forbidden) So that euerie precept doeth not onely commaunde the good, or forbid the …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader

The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity A03590

Printed
7 A shift notwithstanding to maintaine it, by interpreting CommaundedCommanded as though it were meant that greater thinges only ought to be found set …
With rule
7 A shift notwithstanding to maintaine it, by interpreting CommaundedCommanded as though it were meant that greater thinges only ought to be found set …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
8 An other deuise to defend the same, by expounding CommaundedCommanded as if it did signifie grounded on Scripture, and were opposed to things found …
With rule
8 An other deuise to defend the same, by expounding CommaundedCommanded as if it did signifie grounded on Scripture, and were opposed to things found …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 123 · Open in the reader

A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London A04917

Printed
… nothing of Ieſus Chriſt righteouſly / is he who diſcended frō heauen / conuerſed among ſinners. CommaundedCommanded all / vexid ſore / ſeke too come vnto hym / who hanginge vppon the croſſe / prayde …
With rule
… nothing of Ieſus Chriſt righteouſly / is he who diſcended frō heauen / conuerſed among ſinners. CommaundedCommanded all / vexid ſore / ſeke too come vnto hym / who hanginge vppon the croſſe / prayde …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · p. xij · Open in the reader

A Quench-Coal A10197

Printed
… both of the doctrine, and practice of the Church of England against the Papists, CommaundedCommanded to bee had in every Church for Ministers and the people to reade. (And …
With rule
… both of the doctrine, and practice of the Church of England against the Papists, CommaundedCommanded to bee had in every Church for Ministers and the people to reade. (And …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Vicar removing, Bishop Farrar himselfe in the third yeare of King Edwards Raigne; CommaundedCommanded the Vicar to sett the Table WITHOUT THE CHANCELL againe, neere the place where …
With rule
… the Vicar removing, Bishop Farrar himselfe in the third yeare of King Edwards Raigne; CommaundedCommanded the Vicar to sett the Table WITHOUT THE CHANCELL againe, neere the place where …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vayles. & not without things no wayes prescribed by the Booke of Comon prayer or CommaundedCommanded by his Mayestey under the great Seale, suspending, silencing, depriving, excommunicating Ministers, and vexing …
With rule
… vayles. & not without things no wayes prescribed by the Booke of Comon prayer or CommaundedCommanded by his Mayestey under the great Seale, suspending, silencing, depriving, excommunicating Ministers, and vexing …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 177 · Open in the reader

Showing the Necessity of Conformity A12800

Printed
Becauſe they are neither expreſly CommaundedCommanded nor forbidden of God. Bucanus vbi ſuperius, this rule alſo of a thing indifferent …
With rule
Becauſe they are neither expreſly CommaundedCommanded nor forbidden of God. Bucanus vbi ſuperius, this rule alſo of a thing indifferent …
John Sprint · Showing the Necessity of Conformity · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Scriptur. fol. 22. part. 1. Adiap. And are diſtinguiſhed from things ſimply good, which are expreſſely CommaundedCommanded, from things ſimply euill which are expreſſely forbidden of God, being in their nature …
With rule
… Scriptur. fol. 22. part. 1. Adiap. And are diſtinguiſhed from things ſimply good, which are expreſſely CommaundedCommanded, from things ſimply euill which are expreſſely forbidden of God, being in their nature …
John Sprint · Showing the Necessity of Conformity · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sarauiam cap. 25. fol. 200. ſaith indifferent things I call which are neither expreſſely nor ſecretly CommaundedCommanded, nor forbidden by the word, neither maketh vs the better being vſed, nor the …
With rule
… Sarauiam cap. 25. fol. 200. ſaith indifferent things I call which are neither expreſſely nor ſecretly CommaundedCommanded, nor forbidden by the word, neither maketh vs the better being vſed, nor the …
John Sprint · Showing the Necessity of Conformity · p. 47 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Sabbath Day A16567

Printed
… the Lords day they haue, & it is this; the Authority of the Magiſtrate hath CommaundedCommanded it; and therfore we muſt keepe it, &c. Let no man thinke I frame …
With rule
… the Lords day they haue, & it is this; the Authority of the Magiſtrate hath CommaundedCommanded it; and therfore we muſt keepe it, &c. Let no man thinke I frame …
Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be doubly conſidered of, as it is commaundedcommanded by God, or as it is CommaundedCommanded by the Magiſtrate; as it is commaundedcommanded by the Magiſtrate, ſo I doe no …
With rule
… be doubly conſidered of, as it is commaundedcommanded by God, or as it is CommaundedCommanded by the Magiſtrate; as it is commaundedcommanded by the Magiſtrate, ſo I doe no …
Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 256 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse A17001

Printed
This Law; Ye ſhall reuerence my Tabernacle, Leuit. chap. 19. 30. and 26. 2. CommaundedCommanded to reuerence infinitly, the Tabernacle of Chriſt. And Ben Arama, noteth truely, vppon Exod …
With rule
This Law; Ye ſhall reuerence my Tabernacle, Leuit. chap. 19. 30. and 26. 2. CommaundedCommanded to reuerence infinitly, the Tabernacle of Chriſt. And Ben Arama, noteth truely, vppon Exod …
Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 103 · Open in the reader