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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5018 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

poysonspoisons

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

Puritas changed it
469 times in 295 works
Consistency
85.1% (469 of 551)
Reach if approved
~579 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: poisons
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
551 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (469 changes in 295 works, 85.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 469)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſhedding of bloud openly by frayes and quarrels, cloſely by extortion, and cunningly by poyſonspoisons? Inceſt, adulterie, fornication with their In-mates, go through the land: and when was …
    With rule
    … ſhedding of bloud openly by frayes and quarrels, cloſely by extortion, and cunningly by poyſonspoisons? Inceſt, adulterie, fornication with their In-mates, go through the land: and when was …

    Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … but that whiche commeth in batayle and fyghteth with vnclenneſſe without ceaſyng, expellyng all poyſonspoisons / that the fleſſhe & the euyll ſpiryte caſt vnto vs / ſo ſayeth ſaynt Peter. Derely …
    With rule
    … but that whiche commeth in batayle and fyghteth with vnclenneſſe without ceaſyng, expellyng all poyſonspoisons / that the fleſſhe & the euyll ſpiryte caſt vnto vs / ſo ſayeth ſaynt Peter. Derely …

    Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … filthie Dog) to diſpute of Chriſtian religion, which renueſt vnto vs afreſh theſe reaſtie poyſonspoisons of Pelagius, but rather arte thou worthye with theſe monſters, yt thou ſhouldeſtſée this …
    With rule
    … filthie Dog) to diſpute of Chriſtian religion, which renueſt vnto vs afreſh theſe reaſtie poyſonspoisons of Pelagius, but rather arte thou worthye with theſe monſters, yt thou ſhouldeſtſée this …

    Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 222 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the person that hath it, and suffers them, from being miserable. Yea, as deadly poysonspoisons may be, and are so mixed, and tempered, as they become, in cases, more …
    With rule
    … the person that hath it, and suffers them, from being miserable. Yea, as deadly poysonspoisons may be, and are so mixed, and tempered, as they become, in cases, more …

    John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 192 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Sathan, the corruptions of her owne affections, who like a cruell steppe-Dame mingleth poysonspoisons and pestilent things to murther the Spirit, to repell every good motion, and to …
    With rule
    … Sathan, the corruptions of her owne affections, who like a cruell steppe-Dame mingleth poysonspoisons and pestilent things to murther the Spirit, to repell every good motion, and to …

    Richard Sibbes · Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … errours of the time, as physitions study the nature and describe the work of poysonspoisons, not to teach them, but to teach how to avoid them. So heresies of …
    With rule
    … errours of the time, as physitions study the nature and describe the work of poysonspoisons, not to teach them, but to teach how to avoid them. So heresies of …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 235 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the onely remedie which Papistes séeke, is by prayer to God. As for treasons, poysonspoisons, wilchcraftes, coniurations, and other deuilish d…uises, haue they not procéeded, from them y …
    With rule
    … the onely remedie which Papistes séeke, is by prayer to God. As for treasons, poysonspoisons, wilchcraftes, coniurations, and other deuilish d…uises, haue they not procéeded, from them y …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … wel, because Christiā men. And as the skilful Apothecary makes wholesome potions of noysome poysonspoisons, by a wise melling and allaying them: so let vs meete with the intended …
    With rule
    … wel, because Christiā men. And as the skilful Apothecary makes wholesome potions of noysome poysonspoisons, by a wise melling and allaying them: so let vs meete with the intended …

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (82)

27 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 55 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture A00593

  • Printed
    … was deadly; the leaſt thought of ſinne, yea the ſinne of thought is ſo. PoyſonsPoisons be they never ſo pernicious and deadly, are pernicious and hurtfull to that part …
    With rule
    … was deadly; the leaſt thought of ſinne, yea the ſinne of thought is ſo. PoyſonsPoisons be they never ſo pernicious and deadly, are pernicious and hurtfull to that part …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 657 · Open in the reader

The Happiness of the Church A01956

  • Printed
    … the tongue with blasphemie, the hands with oppression, the whole bodie with intemperance. It PoysonsPoisons beautie with wantonesse, strength with violence, witte with wilfulnesse, learning with dissension, deuotion with …
    With rule
    … the tongue with blasphemie, the hands with oppression, the whole bodie with intemperance. It PoysonsPoisons beautie with wantonesse, strength with violence, witte with wilfulnesse, learning with dissension, deuotion with …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 309 · Open in the reader

Mystical Bedlam A02265

  • Printed
    PoysonsPoisons the bloud, and filles the braine with madnesse.
    With rule
    PoysonsPoisons the bloud, and filles the braine with madnesse.

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 54 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

  • Printed
    … should a good God bee author of them? Sillie man that thou art! The PoysonsPoisons thou occupyest in Tryacles for thy health, euen against the Plague. And of those …
    With rule
    … should a good God bee author of them? Sillie man that thou art! The PoysonsPoisons thou occupyest in Tryacles for thy health, euen against the Plague. And of those …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions A20631

  • Printed
    … Detracter, a Libeller, a scornefull Iester at home? For, as they that write of PoysonsPoisons, and of creatures naturally disposed to the ruine of Man, do as well mention …
    With rule
    … Detracter, a Libeller, a scornefull Iester at home? For, as they that write of PoysonsPoisons, and of creatures naturally disposed to the ruine of Man, do as well mention …

    John Donne · Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions · p. 284 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

  • Printed
    … in all his life, but neither did this succeed: Then they attempted it by PoysonsPoisons, but whether by the strength of his constitution, or by the Divine Providence, neither …
    With rule
    … in all his life, but neither did this succeed: Then they attempted it by PoysonsPoisons, but whether by the strength of his constitution, or by the Divine Providence, neither …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 154 · Open in the reader

Existence and Attributes of God A32723

  • Printed
    … Underſtanding of man of an impurer Alloy by knowing the nature of the rankeſt PoyſonsPoisons? by underſtanding a Fly? or a ſmall Inſect? or by conſidering the deformity of …
    With rule
    … Underſtanding of man of an impurer Alloy by knowing the nature of the rankeſt PoyſonsPoisons? by underſtanding a Fly? or a ſmall Inſect? or by conſidering the deformity of …

    Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 284 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … purifie us; he often brings the cleareſt light out of the thickeſt darkneſs, makes PoyſonsPoisons to become Medicines. Death it ſelf, the greateſt Puniſhment in this Life, and the …
    With rule
    … purifie us; he often brings the cleareſt light out of the thickeſt darkneſs, makes PoyſonsPoisons to become Medicines. Death it ſelf, the greateſt Puniſhment in this Life, and the …

    Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 371 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons A36296

  • Printed
    … him kil himself in the sinful ways of death. As they that write of PoysonsPoisons, and of those creatures that naturally maligne and would destroy man, do name the …
    With rule
    … him kil himself in the sinful ways of death. As they that write of PoysonsPoisons, and of those creatures that naturally maligne and would destroy man, do name the …

    John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 139 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

  • Printed
    … Neither say Physician cure thy self, seeing English Antidotes are too weak for Italian PoysonsPoisons. But Cicaonius to Palliate the business, saith he died of the Plague, and thus …
    With rule
    … Neither say Physician cure thy self, seeing English Antidotes are too weak for Italian PoysonsPoisons. But Cicaonius to Palliate the business, saith he died of the Plague, and thus …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 168 · Open in the reader

Satans Temptations in Three Parts A42781

  • Printed
    … a matter very improper for them, if their skill had lain only in mixing PoyſonsPoisons.
    With rule
    … a matter very improper for them, if their skill had lain only in mixing PoyſonsPoisons.

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 29 · Open in the reader

Works of Hooker A44334

  • Printed
    … spoken, are like leprous Clothes, infectious to the Church; or like soft and gentle PoysonsPoisons, the venom whereof being insensibly penicious, worketh death, and yet is never felt working …
    With rule
    … spoken, are like leprous Clothes, infectious to the Church; or like soft and gentle PoysonsPoisons, the venom whereof being insensibly penicious, worketh death, and yet is never felt working …

    Richard Hooker · Works of Hooker · p. 109 · Open in the reader

The Application of Redemption A44342

  • Printed
    … should turn our Meat and diet into Diseases, the best Cordials and Preservatives into PoysonsPoisons, so that what in reason is … to nourish a man should kill him. Such …
    With rule
    … should turn our Meat and diet into Diseases, the best Cordials and Preservatives into PoysonsPoisons, so that what in reason is … to nourish a man should kill him. Such …

    Thomas Hooker · The Application of Redemption · p. 62 · Open in the reader

The Beautify of Magistracy A45330

  • Printed
    … repent of them, and Judge our selves; then will God make Medicines of these PoysonsPoisons, and either turn or overturn such as molest his people. As in nature, so …
    With rule
    … repent of them, and Judge our selves; then will God make Medicines of these PoysonsPoisons, and either turn or overturn such as molest his people. As in nature, so …

    Thomas Hall · The Beautify of Magistracy · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Usury Stated Overthrown A46740

  • Printed
    … allowed of USURY. And preſently after he explains his Saying: There are many ſtrong PoyſonsPoisons, which the learned Phyſicians can ſo qualifie, that a ſick Perſon may take a …
    With rule
    … allowed of USURY. And preſently after he explains his Saying: There are many ſtrong PoyſonsPoisons, which the learned Phyſicians can ſo qualifie, that a ſick Perſon may take a …

    Christopher Jelinger · Usury Stated Overthrown · p. 146 · Open in the reader

The Figures or Types of Christ A50253

  • Printed
    … they might happily keep ſome who were bad, from being worſe. For though natural PoyſonsPoisons may by art be ſo qualified and corrected, to make them cordial; yet moral …
    With rule
    … they might happily keep ſome who were bad, from being worſe. For though natural PoyſonsPoisons may by art be ſo qualified and corrected, to make them cordial; yet moral …

    Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · p. 610 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … may by art be ſo qualified and corrected, to make them cordial; yet moral PoyſonsPoisons, viz. things ſinful of themſelves can never be ſo ordered and regulated, but that …
    With rule
    … may by art be ſo qualified and corrected, to make them cordial; yet moral PoyſonsPoisons, viz. things ſinful of themſelves can never be ſo ordered and regulated, but that …

    Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · p. 610 · Open in the reader

The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God A61474

  • Printed
    … I sleep sweetly over an unknown, roaring Deep? Can I imbrace Fire, feed on PoysonsPoisons, drink down Tortures, like Water? Can I make those hateful Shapes, at which, when …
    With rule
    … I sleep sweetly over an unknown, roaring Deep? Can I imbrace Fire, feed on PoysonsPoisons, drink down Tortures, like Water? Can I make those hateful Shapes, at which, when …

    Peter Sterry · The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God · p. 15 · Open in the reader

A Body of Practical Divinity A65285

  • Printed
    … Marriage-Relation, without which it is not Conjugium, but Conjurgium; it is like two PoysonsPoisons in one Stomach, one is ever sick of the other. 2. Fidelity. In Marriage there …
    With rule
    … Marriage-Relation, without which it is not Conjugium, but Conjurgium; it is like two PoysonsPoisons in one Stomach, one is ever sick of the other. 2. Fidelity. In Marriage there …

    Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 369 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … lives on Blood, it studies Revenge. Caligula had a Chest where he kept deadly PoysonsPoisons for them he had Malice against. The Fire of Malice brings Men to the …
    With rule
    … lives on Blood, it studies Revenge. Caligula had a Chest where he kept deadly PoysonsPoisons for them he had Malice against. The Fire of Malice brings Men to the …

    Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 397 · Open in the reader

A Christian Library A67744

  • Printed
    A PRECIOUS MITHRIDATE FOR The SOULE Made up of those two POYSONSPOISONS, Covetousness AND Prodigality: The one drawn from the Fathers Ill Qualities: The other from …
    With rule
    A PRECIOUS MITHRIDATE FOR The SOULE Made up of those two POYSONSPOISONS, Covetousness AND Prodigality: The one drawn from the Fathers Ill Qualities: The other from …

    Richard Younge · A Christian Library · Open in the reader

A Counterpoison A67746

  • Printed
    … Rom. 11. 33. O the wonderfull and soveraigne goodnesse of our God! that turnes all our PoysonsPoisons into Co…; that can change our terrours into pleasures, and make the greatest evils …
    With rule
    … Rom. 11. 33. O the wonderfull and soveraigne goodnesse of our God! that turnes all our PoysonsPoisons into Co…; that can change our terrours into pleasures, and make the greatest evils …

    Richard Younge · A Counterpoison · p. 237 · Open in the reader

The Baiting of the Pope_s Bull A69022

  • Printed
    … your blaſphemies. And for your Armour of light, what is it but Piſtols, Stellettoes, PoyſonsPoisons, your vſuall weapons, whereby you perpetrate thoſe helliſh workes of darkneſſe, which who ſo …
    With rule
    … your blaſphemies. And for your Armour of light, what is it but Piſtols, Stellettoes, PoyſonsPoisons, your vſuall weapons, whereby you perpetrate thoſe helliſh workes of darkneſſe, which who ſo …

    Henry Burton · The Baiting of the Pope_s Bull · p. 43 · Open in the reader

The Morning Exercise Methodized A81247

  • Printed
    … diffuſeth it ſelf all over Chriſtendome in its Doctrines and Agitations, its Philtres and PoyſonsPoisons, that inflames it more with contentions and Warres, than any part of the world …
    With rule
    … diffuſeth it ſelf all over Chriſtendome in its Doctrines and Agitations, its Philtres and PoyſonsPoisons, that inflames it more with contentions and Warres, than any part of the world …

    Thomas Case · The Morning Exercise Methodized · p. 673 · Open in the reader

The Christians Guide to Devotion A93395

  • Printed
    … living and pure Fountain. Let it be no more an accurſed Field abounding in PoyſonsPoisons, but a fertile one in Flowers and Fruits of good-living, and let none …
    With rule
    … living and pure Fountain. Let it be no more an accurſed Field abounding in PoyſonsPoisons, but a fertile one in Flowers and Fruits of good-living, and let none …

    Samuel Smith · The Christians Guide to Devotion · p. 195 · Open in the reader

The Floating Island A94057

  • Printed
    Slight Medicines, and ſtrong PoyſonsPoisons. Time hath been,
    With rule
    Slight Medicines, and ſtrong PoyſonsPoisons. Time hath been,

    William Strode · The Floating Island · Open in the reader

Works A97360

  • Printed
    … but by the outward ſenſes of hearing, and ſeeing eſpecially ſent in the temptation. PoyſonsPoisons cannot reach the heart, unleſs by the ſenſes they bee drawn in. So wicked …
    With rule
    … but by the outward ſenſes of hearing, and ſeeing eſpecially ſent in the temptation. PoyſonsPoisons cannot reach the heart, unleſs by the ſenſes they bee drawn in. So wicked …

    Thomas Taylor · Works · p. 188 · Open in the reader