Rules
All candidates
Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11454 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

feddefed

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

Puritas changed it
672 times in 286 works
Consistency
100% (672 of 672)
Reach if approved
~706 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: fed
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
672 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (672 changes in 286 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 672)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … their bodies, but also to be a token vnto them, that seeing the Lord feddefed them from heauen, they were not to settle themselues on the earth, but to …
    With rule
    … their bodies, but also to be a token vnto them, that seeing the Lord feddefed them from heauen, they were not to settle themselues on the earth, but to …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 737 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … agayne, and become subiectes vnder the great Romish Pharao, so that they myght be feddefed with his olde stynkynge cucumbers, melons, lekes, onyons, and garlyke, whych are hys vnprofytable …
    With rule
    … agayne, and become subiectes vnder the great Romish Pharao, so that they myght be feddefed with his olde stynkynge cucumbers, melons, lekes, onyons, and garlyke, whych are hys vnprofytable …

    John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … his ſoule, becauſe it may be, that through want of care, inſtead of being feddefed, he may be poiſoned. We know rather, that he ought to be, the more …
    With rule
    … his ſoule, becauſe it may be, that through want of care, inſtead of being feddefed, he may be poiſoned. We know rather, that he ought to be, the more …

    Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſainctes of God / & thoſe cruell murtherers. In Ieruſalem / Ieremy beyng dampned to pryſon / was feddefed of the kynges charges / & that when great hunger and ſcante of bread was in …
    With rule
    … ſainctes of God / & thoſe cruell murtherers. In Ieruſalem / Ieremy beyng dampned to pryſon / was feddefed of the kynges charges / & that when great hunger and ſcante of bread was in …

    John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … eares beneuolente and attente. Sodenlie then wyth an high voice cryed, the accusar the feddefed sowe) thou hereticke, runnagate, traytoure and thiefe. It was not lawefull for the to …
    With rule
    … eares beneuolente and attente. Sodenlie then wyth an high voice cryed, the accusar the feddefed sowe) thou hereticke, runnagate, traytoure and thiefe. It was not lawefull for the to …

    David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and are flieced by them whom they feed, and by whom they ſhould bee feddefed, through vexatious ſuits in law, than to the poore hare in the Epigram, which …
    With rule
    … and are flieced by them whom they feed, and by whom they ſhould bee feddefed, through vexatious ſuits in law, than to the poore hare in the Epigram, which …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … blaſphemy. Then the careleſſe Shepheard and idle Miniſter, which hath not to his power feddefed the Lordes ſheepe, but neglected them and left them at al aduentures: which folowing …
    With rule
    … blaſphemy. Then the careleſſe Shepheard and idle Miniſter, which hath not to his power feddefed the Lordes ſheepe, but neglected them and left them at al aduentures: which folowing …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 361 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … owne Caruers, but it muſt bee mynced too our handes, wee muſt alſo bee feddefed as it were by ſpoonfuls. For this cauſe he did not content himſelfe to …
    With rule
    … owne Caruers, but it muſt bee mynced too our handes, wee muſt alſo bee feddefed as it were by ſpoonfuls. For this cauſe he did not content himſelfe to …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons Upon the Seven Chief Virtues · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.