Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1489 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

meatesmeats

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 2,859 times in 693 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,859 of 2,860)
Reach if approved: ~3,005 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: meats
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,860 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,859 changes in 693 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,859)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… stomack hankers after this thing & that thing (hee cannot away with all kind of meatesmeats) and when hee hath what he wished for, hee doth but piddle a little …
With rule
… stomack hankers after this thing & that thing (hee cannot away with all kind of meatesmeats) and when hee hath what he wished for, hee doth but piddle a little …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yow vngolye promiſes? whan hūger yow for the ryght ouſneſſe of God? Abſtynēce from meatesmeats maketh vs not Gods ſeruauntes. For than were the deuyll moſt holye, which neuer …
With rule
… yow vngolye promiſes? whan hūger yow for the ryght ouſneſſe of God? Abſtynēce from meatesmeats maketh vs not Gods ſeruauntes. For than were the deuyll moſt holye, which neuer …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beloued. And then (as those that haue tasted some delicate dish, finde other plaine meatesmeats but vnpleasant, so) you that haue tasted of heauenly things, cannot but contemne the …
With rule
… beloued. And then (as those that haue tasted some delicate dish, finde other plaine meatesmeats but vnpleasant, so) you that haue tasted of heauenly things, cannot but contemne the …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which quencheth our Lampe. For as in a body ouercharged with immoderate quantitie of meatesmeats or drinkes, when the moisture swels (like a tide aboue the verges) and extinguisheth …
With rule
… which quencheth our Lampe. For as in a body ouercharged with immoderate quantitie of meatesmeats or drinkes, when the moisture swels (like a tide aboue the verges) and extinguisheth …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you, as wel as in those olde heretikes. For you also forbid marriage and meatesmeats, to some men at al times, and to all men at some times, therefore …
With rule
… you, as wel as in those olde heretikes. For you also forbid marriage and meatesmeats, to some men at al times, and to all men at some times, therefore …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt, hath vpon certaine daies, and at certaine times, times, appointed an abſtinence from meatesmeats, placing therein the worſhip of God, remiſſion of ſinnes, and the merite of eternall …
With rule
… Chriſt, hath vpon certaine daies, and at certaine times, times, appointed an abſtinence from meatesmeats, placing therein the worſhip of God, remiſſion of ſinnes, and the merite of eternall …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God is to him but a dead letter, euen as reſtoratiues, and nouriſhing meatesmeats are to a liueleſſe corps.
With rule
… of God is to him but a dead letter, euen as reſtoratiues, and nouriſhing meatesmeats are to a liueleſſe corps.
Thomas Granger · The Bread of Life · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is no leſſe difference of conſciences then ſtomackes; Some ſtomacks will digeſt the hardeſt meatesmeats, and turne ouer ſubſtances, not in their nature edible, whiles others ſurret of the …
With rule
… is no leſſe difference of conſciences then ſtomackes; Some ſtomacks will digeſt the hardeſt meatesmeats, and turne ouer ſubſtances, not in their nature edible, whiles others ſurret of the …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Compend of the Controversies of Religion A02349

Printed
CHAP. VI. THAT NO MEATESMEATS are to bee abſtained from, for Conſcience ſake.
With rule
CHAP. VI. THAT NO MEATESMEATS are to bee abſtained from, for Conſcience ſake.
William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · Open in the reader