Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11927 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ministrethministereth

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

Puritas changed it: 824 times in 443 works
Consistency: 98.2% (824 of 839)
Reach if approved: ~883 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ministereth
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 840 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (824 changes in 443 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 824)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſicke, are glad of the comming of the Phyſition, that bringeth them medicine and miniſtrethministereth it to them, becauſe now they hope they are in the way of being …
With rule
… ſicke, are glad of the comming of the Phyſition, that bringeth them medicine and miniſtrethministereth it to them, becauſe now they hope they are in the way of being …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can not easily be stayed, and whose propertie is to consume all things that ministrethministereth matter vnto it: and for that cause the Lord him selfe in respect of …
With rule
… can not easily be stayed, and whose propertie is to consume all things that ministrethministereth matter vnto it: and for that cause the Lord him selfe in respect of …
William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… drinke, and yet he cryeth and calleth ſtill for more. To the other he miniſtrethministereth himſelfe a litle conſ…rue on the point of a knife, that ſlaketh his …
With rule
… drinke, and yet he cryeth and calleth ſtill for more. To the other he miniſtrethministereth himſelfe a litle conſ…rue on the point of a knife, that ſlaketh his …
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no maruell, for if the mind of man be the fountaine of comforts, which ministrethministereth comfort vnto him in all other troubles; and if it become comfortles, what shall …
With rule
… no maruell, for if the mind of man be the fountaine of comforts, which ministrethministereth comfort vnto him in all other troubles; and if it become comfortles, what shall …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
… the feeling thereof, is as it were to wiſh ſufferings without ſuffering When God miniſtrethministereth for the preſeruation or recouerie of ſpirituall health, it is the office of faith …
With rule
… the feeling thereof, is as it were to wiſh ſufferings without ſuffering When God miniſtrethministereth for the preſeruation or recouerie of ſpirituall health, it is the office of faith …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 352 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this ſort: Prouidence is, which to things foreknown by God & in his wiſedome ordained miniſtrethministereth that thing, which may keep & vphold that order, & remoueth away al diſorder or inordinatiō …
With rule
… this ſort: Prouidence is, which to things foreknown by God & in his wiſedome ordained miniſtrethministereth that thing, which may keep & vphold that order, & remoueth away al diſorder or inordinatiō …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the name of Prieſt, if it bee rightly taken, for ſuch an one as miniſtrethministereth in holy things betwixt God and the people, but that the Miniſters of the …
With rule
… the name of Prieſt, if it bee rightly taken, for ſuch an one as miniſtrethministereth in holy things betwixt God and the people, but that the Miniſters of the …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
Antichrist sitteth in his glorious throne and ministrethministereth his owne lawes and traditions to all menne, and holdeth a small mater longe …
With rule
Antichrist sitteth in his glorious throne and ministrethministereth his owne lawes and traditions to all menne, and holdeth a small mater longe …
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

9 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.

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

Printed
… Discipline; why doest thou not as well breake the Glasse in which thy Physitian MinistrethMinistereth a potion unto thee. Bee Angry with thy sinne, and thou wilt love him …
With rule
… Discipline; why doest thou not as well breake the Glasse in which thy Physitian MinistrethMinistereth a potion unto thee. Bee Angry with thy sinne, and thou wilt love him …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 322 · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

Printed
MinistrethMinistereth. MinistrethMinistereth at supper. …2. 2.
With rule
MinistrethMinistereth. MinistrethMinistereth at supper. …2. 2.
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
MinistrethMinistereth. MinistrethMinistereth at supper. …2. 2.
With rule
MinistrethMinistereth. MinistrethMinistereth at supper. …2. 2.
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · Open in the reader

The Vindication of Liturgies Proved No Vindication A33981

Printed
… Forms only, prayeth Mentally, as all the People do, who joyneth with him who MiniſtrethMinistereth in Prayer: For the Miniſters reading a Form, can be no part of External …
With rule
… Forms only, prayeth Mentally, as all the People do, who joyneth with him who MiniſtrethMinistereth in Prayer: For the Miniſters reading a Form, can be no part of External …
John Collinges · The Vindication of Liturgies Proved No Vindication · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Form may be uſed in a Family. I think ſo too, if he that MiniſtrethMinistereth hath not the Gift of Prayer, or if it be a form compoſed by …
With rule
… Form may be uſed in a Family. I think ſo too, if he that MiniſtrethMinistereth hath not the Gift of Prayer, or if it be a form compoſed by …
John Collinges · The Vindication of Liturgies Proved No Vindication · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nature God hath left to liberty. I mean no other men beſides he that MiniſtrethMinistereth in Prayer, which appeareth to be a part of his Inſtitution, becauſe he hath …
With rule
… Nature God hath left to liberty. I mean no other men beſides he that MiniſtrethMinistereth in Prayer, which appeareth to be a part of his Inſtitution, becauſe he hath …
John Collinges · The Vindication of Liturgies Proved No Vindication · p. 199 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Pauls Epistles A35951

Printed
MinistrethMinistereth] Exhort. 6. That hee which ministrethministereth unto the necessities of others, either by his assistance …
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MinistrethMinistereth] Exhort. 6. That hee which ministrethministereth unto the necessities of others, either by his assistance …
David Dickson · An Exposition of Pauls Epistles · p. 296 · Open in the reader

History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 A54576

Printed
… no part of their function. What then? to ſing a goſpell, when the Bishop MiniſtrethMinistereth the communion. If this he not a perverting of this office & charge, let every …
With rule
… no part of their function. What then? to ſing a goſpell, when the Bishop MiniſtrethMinistereth the communion. If this he not a perverting of this office & charge, let every …
Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 461 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he keeps weekly convention with his Seſſion for the exerciſe of diſciplin; whether he MiniſtrethMinistereth the Communion yearly with due examinations preceeding; whether he hath an eſtablish'd Seſſion of …
With rule
… he keeps weekly convention with his Seſſion for the exerciſe of diſciplin; whether he MiniſtrethMinistereth the Communion yearly with due examinations preceeding; whether he hath an eſtablish'd Seſſion of …
Alexander Petrie · History of the Catholic Church from 600 to 1600 · p. 561 · Open in the reader