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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5269 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

boylboil

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

Puritas changed it
191 times in 137 works
Consistency
81.9% (191 of 233)
Reach if approved
~245 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: boil
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
233 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (191 changes in 137 works, 81.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 191)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    V. 2. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boylboil] Heb. the fire of meltings burneth. or, fire burneth the meltings. As the fire …
    With rule
    V. 2. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boylboil] Heb. the fire of meltings burneth. or, fire burneth the meltings. As the fire …

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … either in its raw juice or powder dryed in an oven: but do but boylboil it, and then break up the ſcheme of it, and then if it changes …
    With rule
    … either in its raw juice or powder dryed in an oven: but do but boylboil it, and then break up the ſcheme of it, and then if it changes …

    Nathaniel Fairfax · Bulk and Selvage of the World · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … never cared to have any preſented to him very young, till the heats which boylboil in the blouds of youth were well ſcum'd off, if not quite boyl'd away …
    With rule
    … never cared to have any preſented to him very young, till the heats which boylboil in the blouds of youth were well ſcum'd off, if not quite boyl'd away …

    John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. xxxvi · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Verſ. 31. He maketh the deep to boylboil like a pot, &c.] The meaning is, that partly by the moving of his …
    With rule
    Verſ. 31. He maketh the deep to boylboil like a pot, &c.] The meaning is, that partly by the moving of his …

    Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry · p. 294 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … God hath given to nature; we know if we should take our meat and boylboil it upon the hottest fire, it can never prepare it so as the heat …
    With rule
    … God hath given to nature; we know if we should take our meat and boylboil it upon the hottest fire, it can never prepare it so as the heat …

    Stephen Marshall · Works Part 1 · p. 73 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of Mercy: As if a man ſhould be diligent to cure another of a boylboil, while he minds not the plague or leproſie upon himſelf: or ſhould be buſie …
    With rule
    … of Mercy: As if a man ſhould be diligent to cure another of a boylboil, while he minds not the plague or leproſie upon himſelf: or ſhould be buſie …

    Richard Baxter · The Mischiefs of Self-Ignorance · p. 139 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … not deny the ſame? Then take heed of that corruption of Nature which doth boylboil up to malice; take heed of evil Principles about the Rule of your life …
    With rule
    … not deny the ſame? Then take heed of that corruption of Nature which doth boylboil up to malice; take heed of evil Principles about the Rule of your life …

    William Bridge · Scripture Light the Most Sure Light · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … many quarrelſom and turbulent Spirits in a due order? If thoſe bruitiſh paſſions which boylboil in the hearts of men, were let looſe by that infinite power that bridles …
    With rule
    … many quarrelſom and turbulent Spirits in a due order? If thoſe bruitiſh paſſions which boylboil in the hearts of men, were let looſe by that infinite power that bridles …

    Stephen Charnock · A Treatise of Divine Providence · p. 56 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (42)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 37 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors A37483

  • Printed
    … by a hard Metaphor, alluding to the Carkasses of men, before mentioned, Deut. 16.7. To foreign BoylBoil is put for Roasting the Paschal Lamb, which was not to be boyled but …
    With rule
    … by a hard Metaphor, alluding to the Carkasses of men, before mentioned, Deut. 16.7. To foreign BoylBoil is put for Roasting the Paschal Lamb, which was not to be boyled but …

    Thomas De Laune · A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors · p. 196 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

  • Printed
    … to Imagine how did the choler of thoſe Courtiers (at leaſt ſome of them) BoylBoil in their Bodies to hear of a Stranger (but Potiphar's Slave) preferr'd above them …
    With rule
    … to Imagine how did the choler of thoſe Courtiers (at leaſt ſome of them) BoylBoil in their Bodies to hear of a Stranger (but Potiphar's Slave) preferr'd above them …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 391 · Open in the reader

The First Last A53272

  • Printed
    … then Iron-rams, to diſmantle a City; A Playſter of Figs ſhall cure a BoylBoil, or Plague-ſore, if God pleaſe: Nor is it leſs true, that the word …
    With rule
    … then Iron-rams, to diſmantle a City; A Playſter of Figs ſhall cure a BoylBoil, or Plague-ſore, if God pleaſe: Nor is it leſs true, that the word …

    John Oldfield · The First Last · p. 36 · Open in the reader

Forty Sermons A63825

  • Printed
    … one, and that's hardly cured; like that Plague of Leproſie broken out of the BoylBoil, which made the Perſon wholly unclean in the Law, Lev. 13. 20. Or like the Man …
    With rule
    … one, and that's hardly cured; like that Plague of Leproſie broken out of the BoylBoil, which made the Perſon wholly unclean in the Law, Lev. 13. 20. Or like the Man …

    Anthony Tuckney · Forty Sermons · p. 491 · Open in the reader

The Benefice A65997

  • Printed
    BoylBoil them till they be enough:
    With rule
    BoylBoil them till they be enough:

    Robert Wild · The Benefice · p. 24 · Open in the reader