Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4878 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

boyledboiled

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it: 327 times in 218 works
Consistency: 100% (327 of 327)
Reach if approved: ~344 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: boiled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 327 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (327 changes in 218 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 327)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vpper poſtes of the doore. The Lambe it ſelf they did eate publiquely, not boyledboiled with water, but roſted with fire, and that whole alſo, I meane, bothe head …
With rule
… vpper poſtes of the doore. The Lambe it ſelf they did eate publiquely, not boyledboiled with water, but roſted with fire, and that whole alſo, I meane, bothe head …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 363 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee well reſembleth the Siphny ſtone which though of it owne nature ſoft, yet boyledboiled in oyle, waxeth wonderfull hard. But after this, their follow on him an hell …
With rule
… hee well reſembleth the Siphny ſtone which though of it owne nature ſoft, yet boyledboiled in oyle, waxeth wonderfull hard. But after this, their follow on him an hell …
John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · Open in the reader
Printed
BUt what, doth ſin ſo exceed in ſinfulneſſe, and is the venome of it boyledboiled up to ſuch a height of miſchiefe, that there ſhould be no name in …
With rule
BUt what, doth ſin ſo exceed in ſinfulneſſe, and is the venome of it boyledboiled up to ſuch a height of miſchiefe, that there ſhould be no name in …
Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the enemie, by penetrating their owne, and powred veſſells of hot boyling water, urin, boyledboiled ſand, and ſuch like upon the heads of their enemies, whereby they plagued them …
With rule
… the enemie, by penetrating their owne, and powred veſſells of hot boyling water, urin, boyledboiled ſand, and ſuch like upon the heads of their enemies, whereby they plagued them …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were like B…ame but three times so bigge, and better meate. These being boyledboiled there were at lest fortie looked for share in them, the most eate of …
With rule
… were like B…ame but three times so bigge, and better meate. These being boyledboiled there were at lest fortie looked for share in them, the most eate of …
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Famine of Samaria when a woman complayned to Iehoram, that shee had boyledboiled her Son and eaten him, the Abomination of this Miserie made him to teare …
With rule
… in the Famine of Samaria when a woman complayned to Iehoram, that shee had boyledboiled her Son and eaten him, the Abomination of this Miserie made him to teare …
Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their family (which is not lyttle) doe eate no meate but that which is boyledboiled and ſodden in that fire. For you oughte to vnderſtande, that foraſmuch as the …
With rule
… their family (which is not lyttle) doe eate no meate but that which is boyledboiled and ſodden in that fire. For you oughte to vnderſtande, that foraſmuch as the …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to diuers changes and alterations, and so likewise the wine: for they may be boyledboiled and made hot, they may be infected with poyson: for it is certaine that …
With rule
… to diuers changes and alterations, and so likewise the wine: for they may be boyledboiled and made hot, they may be infected with poyson: for it is certaine that …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 457 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

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