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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3049 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mealesmeals

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

Puritas changed it
425 times in 241 works
Consistency
95.9% (425 of 443)
Reach if approved
~465 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: meals
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
443 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (425 changes in 241 works, 95.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 425)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Therefore reade, pray, meditate, heare, conferre, receive the Sacraments, forbeare not theſe your appointed mealesmeals. Indeed when the body is ſick ye uſe to forbeare your appointed foode, but …
    With rule
    … Therefore reade, pray, meditate, heare, conferre, receive the Sacraments, forbeare not theſe your appointed mealesmeals. Indeed when the body is ſick ye uſe to forbeare your appointed foode, but …

    Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … no more conſcience than the aking of the ſtomacke when it wants its ſet mealesmeals. 2. Preiudice and conceit, when a man vpon ſome preſumptions and probabilities hath pitcht vpon …
    With rule
    … no more conſcience than the aking of the ſtomacke when it wants its ſet mealesmeals. 2. Preiudice and conceit, when a man vpon ſome preſumptions and probabilities hath pitcht vpon …

    Robert Harris · Pauls Confidence · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … that kneeling had been the geſture in Chriſts time, in their ordinary repaſts and mealesmeals and that Chriſt himſelfe with his Apoſtles had kneeled in the receiuing of that …
    With rule
    … that kneeling had been the geſture in Chriſts time, in their ordinary repaſts and mealesmeals and that Chriſt himſelfe with his Apoſtles had kneeled in the receiuing of that …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the knowledge of the Hiſtorie of the Bible, after a Chapter read at our mealesmeals, at dinner out of the old Testament, at ſupper out of the new: I …
    With rule
    … the knowledge of the Hiſtorie of the Bible, after a Chapter read at our mealesmeals, at dinner out of the old Testament, at ſupper out of the new: I …

    Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … is, a dinner, as if a man ſhoulde ſay, the leauings of the former mealesmeals, becauſe that that very ſame day nothing in a manner was ſodden, but ſomewhat …
    With rule
    … is, a dinner, as if a man ſhoulde ſay, the leauings of the former mealesmeals, becauſe that that very ſame day nothing in a manner was ſodden, but ſomewhat …

    Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Wherefore let her bee content with these turnes of comming and going, with short mealesmeals, and long journeyes. If the mealesmeals be sufficient to bring us to our journeyes …
    With rule
    … Wherefore let her bee content with these turnes of comming and going, with short mealesmeals, and long journeyes. If the mealesmeals be sufficient to bring us to our journeyes …

    Francis Rous · The Mystical Marriage · p. 319 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … mercies; and therfore they thinke themſelues more beholden to a naturall man for a mealesmeals meate then to God for all his mercies.
    With rule
    … mercies; and therfore they thinke themſelues more beholden to a naturall man for a mealesmeals meate then to God for all his mercies.

    Samuel Smith · Davids Repentance · p. 475 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … quarter were very sufficient; and one meale well eaten were better then all these mealesmeals. Now if wee would thinke him mad that in earnest should thus reason against …
    With rule
    … quarter were very sufficient; and one meale well eaten were better then all these mealesmeals. Now if wee would thinke him mad that in earnest should thus reason against …

    Thomas Taylor · The Beauties of Bethel · p. 107 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Question of Tithes A11601

  • Printed
    … our Lay-Parſons Faith well guided, Conſciences rectified. Tenne Sheckles of Siluer, and a MealesMeals meate, and Liuerie, they affoord Sir Iohn. In Faith thinke wee? Surely, according to …
    With rule
    … our Lay-Parſons Faith well guided, Conſciences rectified. Tenne Sheckles of Siluer, and a MealesMeals meate, and Liuerie, they affoord Sir Iohn. In Faith thinke wee? Surely, according to …

    William Sclater · The Question of Tithes · Open in the reader

Eighty Sermons A20637

  • Printed
    … gives ſufficient meanes to know him, though they come to neither of the other MealesMeals, neither to the Jews Dinner, The benefit of the Law, nor to the Chriſtians …
    With rule
    … gives ſufficient meanes to know him, though they come to neither of the other MealesMeals, neither to the Jews Dinner, The benefit of the Law, nor to the Chriſtians …

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 684 · Open in the reader

The Privy Key of Heaven A29703

  • Printed
    … laſtly, Becauſe the ſervants redeeming of time for private prayer from his Sleep, his MealesMeals, his Recreations, &c. cannot but be infinitely pleaſing to God, and that which will …
    With rule
    … laſtly, Becauſe the ſervants redeeming of time for private prayer from his Sleep, his MealesMeals, his Recreations, &c. cannot but be infinitely pleaſing to God, and that which will …

    Thomas Brooks · The Privy Key of Heaven · p. 191 · Open in the reader

Family Reformation Promoted A31438

  • Printed
    … all inſtituted Ordinances of worſhip; as Prayers, Reading, hearing the word: Grace & Thankſgiving at MealesMeals, Sacraments, &c: 3. To Reverence Gods Name, in not taking it in vain; and reverent …
    With rule
    … all inſtituted Ordinances of worſhip; as Prayers, Reading, hearing the word: Grace & Thankſgiving at MealesMeals, Sacraments, &c: 3. To Reverence Gods Name, in not taking it in vain; and reverent …

    Daniel Cawdry · Family Reformation Promoted · p. 16 · Open in the reader

A Model of Church Government A81924

  • Printed
    … a diſtance from each other, are one Body, as men uſe to be at MealesMeals; for at mealesmeals none are one body properly, but ſuch as eat together at …
    With rule
    … a diſtance from each other, are one Body, as men uſe to be at MealesMeals; for at mealesmeals none are one body properly, but ſuch as eat together at …

    John Dury · A Model of Church Government · p. 42 · Open in the reader

Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations B15410

  • Printed
    … Ministers to have a Chapter read at their Tables, at all their Feasts and MealesMeals, and then to expound discourse, and drawe exhortations from it, that so they may …
    With rule
    … Ministers to have a Chapter read at their Tables, at all their Feasts and MealesMeals, and then to expound discourse, and drawe exhortations from it, that so they may …

    William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 309 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … them in their houses with their Families, guests, and neighbours, at their Feasts and MealesMeals; and approoves that Exhortation of Sant Chrysostome to his people, Hom. 6. in Gen. Let …
    With rule
    … them in their houses with their Families, guests, and neighbours, at their Feasts and MealesMeals; and approoves that Exhortation of Sant Chrysostome to his people, Hom. 6. in Gen. Let …

    William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 309 · Open in the reader

The Government of the Churches of Christ B23602

  • Printed
    … come after: and that the Church should not meet in the afternoon presently after MealesMeals, is the best also, for edification, to prevent dullness, or hurt by indigestion, &c …
    With rule
    … come after: and that the Church should not meet in the afternoon presently after MealesMeals, is the best also, for edification, to prevent dullness, or hurt by indigestion, &c …

    Thomas Goodwin · The Government of the Churches of Christ · p. 330 · Open in the reader