mentmeant
Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.
- Puritas changed it
- 3,897 times in 959 works
- Consistency
- 99.6% (3,897 of 3,911)
- Reach if approved
- ~4,117 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
- Agrees: meant
- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 3,918 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- None
- Taken into joins
- 3 places (not counted against it)
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,897 changes in 959 works, 99.6% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,897)
- Printed2 These lyghted vpon the swete waters / by whom are mentmeant the sacred scripturs refreshinge the drye sowles. Who so euer drynketh (sayth Christ) of …With rule2 These lyghted vpon the swete waters / by whom are mentmeant the sacred scripturs refreshinge the drye sowles. Who so euer drynketh (sayth Christ) of …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
- Printed… these wordes, not onely is there a letter that killeth in the old Testa mentmeant to be found, but also in the new Testament a letter which killeth him …With rule… these wordes, not onely is there a letter that killeth in the old Testa mentmeant to be found, but also in the new Testament a letter which killeth him …
David Fergusson · Answer to Epistle by Renat Benedict · Open in the reader
- Printed… alwayes a sacrament, of the body, but not alwayes the body without the sacr…mentmeant, if therefore wee haue not the body alwayes without a sacrament: then may any …With rule… alwayes a sacrament, of the body, but not alwayes the body without the sacr…mentmeant, if therefore wee haue not the body alwayes without a sacrament: then may any …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
- Printed… Christes descending into them: therefore he did plainly translate that verse, as it is mentmeant. of the raysing vp of Christes bodie out of the graue, which if he …With rule… Christes descending into them: therefore he did plainly translate that verse, as it is mentmeant. of the raysing vp of Christes bodie out of the graue, which if he …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 66 · Open in the reader
- Printed… as he there deliuereth it, is perpetuall, & the decree of the Apostles was neuer mentmeant of them, but to be temporall, for auoiding offence of the Iewes. As touching …With rule… as he there deliuereth it, is perpetuall, & the decree of the Apostles was neuer mentmeant of them, but to be temporall, for auoiding offence of the Iewes. As touching …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 176 · Open in the reader
- Printed… euerye beaste. It is further saide, that if heere by the name Serpent were mentmeant both the Deuill and a beast, the holy ghost would haue made some distinction …With rule… euerye beaste. It is further saide, that if heere by the name Serpent were mentmeant both the Deuill and a beast, the holy ghost would haue made some distinction …
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
- Printed… valour. They were therefore choice Men of courage, Men of valour, that are here mentmeant in my Text: so as their Propertie doth further setout the Dignity of Chiualry …With rule… valour. They were therefore choice Men of courage, Men of valour, that are here mentmeant in my Text: so as their Propertie doth further setout the Dignity of Chiualry …
William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 4 · Open in the reader
- Printed… the Church of Rome …ounded, that auer… …th remit the fault, … …mentmeant; a doctrine … …table, and diue… ▪With rule… the Church of Rome …ounded, that auer… …th remit the fault, … …mentmeant; a doctrine … …table, and diue… ▪
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 106 · Open in the reader
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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)
8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.
Sermons on Ephesians A17705
- Printed… wydnesse, and thicknesse is: that yee may knowe all this, sayeth he. How now? MentMeant S. Paule too make vs Carpenters or Masons, that he speaketh heere as of …With rule… wydnesse, and thicknesse is: that yee may knowe all this, sayeth he. How now? MentMeant S. Paule too make vs Carpenters or Masons, that he speaketh heere as of …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader
- Printed… baptyzed in his name, mentmeant he too turne away our fayth from his bludshed? MentMeant he that baptim should take the roome of his death and passion, to performe …With rule… baptyzed in his name, mentmeant he too turne away our fayth from his bludshed? MentMeant he that baptim should take the roome of his death and passion, to performe …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Sermons on Galatians A17706
- Printed… to no purpoſe. Marke that for one poynt. If it be alledged, what Sirra? MentMeant God too mocke men? I ſay, no: but they haue alwayes beguiled themſelues with …With rule… to no purpoſe. Marke that for one poynt. If it be alledged, what Sirra? MentMeant God too mocke men? I ſay, no: but they haue alwayes beguiled themſelues with …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 158 · Open in the reader
The History of the Worthies of England A40672
- Printed… qualifications. For as the Prophet complaineth that the Magistrates in Israel had turned JUD…MENTMEANT into WORMWOOD, the like would dayly come to passe in England, where High Justice …With rule… qualifications. For as the Prophet complaineth that the Magistrates in Israel had turned JUD…MENTMEANT into WORMWOOD, the like would dayly come to passe in England, where High Justice …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Usury Stated Overthrown A46740
- Printed… an Uſurer. And ſince, by another famous Writer; whoſe words in Engliſh are theſe: MentMeant… is committed without Covenant, when a Man lendeth with h… of receiving ſomewhat that …With rule… an Uſurer. And ſince, by another famous Writer; whoſe words in Engliſh are theſe: MentMeant… is committed without Covenant, when a Man lendeth with h… of receiving ſomewhat that …
Christopher Jelinger · Usury Stated Overthrown · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Sermons on Job A69056
- Printed… was a cruel lion againſt him, & cruſhed all his bonds aſunder with his teeth. MentMeant Ezechias to find fault with God, or to ſtand in contention againſt him? No …With rule… was a cruel lion againſt him, & cruſhed all his bonds aſunder with his teeth. MentMeant Ezechias to find fault with God, or to ſtand in contention againſt him? No …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 564 · Open in the reader
- Printed… the earth after that maner? and why did his voyce rore with ſuch terribleneſſe? MentMeant hee too driue away his people that they ſhoulde not heare him? Truely it …With rule… the earth after that maner? and why did his voyce rore with ſuch terribleneſſe? MentMeant hee too driue away his people that they ſhoulde not heare him? Truely it …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 753 · Open in the reader
A Complete Body of Divinity N02384
- Printed… e, or doth not know to be True Some think that the Latin word MentMeant…ri, is as much as, Contra Mente… ire: Some diſtinguiſh a Ly into that …With rule… e, or doth not know to be True Some think that the Latin word MentMeant…ri, is as much as, Contra Mente… ire: Some diſtinguiſh a Ly into that …
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 736 · Open in the reader