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musicallmusical

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
353 times in 200 works
Consistency
83.8% (353 of 421)
Reach if approved
~443 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: musical
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
422 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (353 changes in 200 works, 83.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 353)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the oppression of godly men. A master of musick hath his house furnished with musicallmusical instruments of all sorts: and he teacheth his owne schollers artificially to vse them …
    With rule
    … the oppression of godly men. A master of musick hath his house furnished with musicallmusical instruments of all sorts: and he teacheth his owne schollers artificially to vse them …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 675 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … as they did also in the Temples, begging mony in her name, with some musicallmusical instruments; and were therefore called Matragyrtae. Thus did the Priests of Corona also begge …
    With rule
    … as they did also in the Temples, begging mony in her name, with some musicallmusical instruments; and were therefore called Matragyrtae. Thus did the Priests of Corona also begge …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 283 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to the laſt period of times, the time of the Goſpell, and ſee the muſicallmusical harmony thereof with the former: wherein me thinks, I preſage already, that my talke …
    With rule
    … to the laſt period of times, the time of the Goſpell, and ſee the muſicallmusical harmony thereof with the former: wherein me thinks, I preſage already, that my talke …

    John Stoughton · Eleven Choice Sermons · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … iolie white God is caried about on proceſſion, he is then accompanied with notable muſicallmusical inſtruments, with goodlie tapers and torch ſtaues: and both he him ſelfe, and they …
    With rule
    … iolie white God is caried about on proceſſion, he is then accompanied with notable muſicallmusical inſtruments, with goodlie tapers and torch ſtaues: and both he him ſelfe, and they …

    Pierre Viret · Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … were such as were used only for recreation, for the voice of women, for musicallmusical harmony, doth in these two respects excell the voice of men, both in smalnesse …
    With rule
    … were such as were used only for recreation, for the voice of women, for musicallmusical harmony, doth in these two respects excell the voice of men, both in smalnesse …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 183 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … their steed. Besides that those places that required some speciall kinde of skill, military, musicallmusical or the like, either were exempted wholy from Lotery, or the Lot went among …
    With rule
    … their steed. Besides that those places that required some speciall kinde of skill, military, musicallmusical or the like, either were exempted wholy from Lotery, or the Lot went among …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and their hands in ſteed of weilding the Sword and Speare, ſtrike vpon thoſe muſicallmusical ſtrings whereby they might expreſſe the ioy of their hearts; heere was no noyſe …
    With rule
    … and their hands in ſteed of weilding the Sword and Speare, ſtrike vpon thoſe muſicallmusical ſtrings whereby they might expreſſe the ioy of their hearts; heere was no noyſe …

    Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 166 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … noyse and roryng of the gūnes would much more delight hys eares, then any musicallmusical harmony of swete songes, or pleasant instrumētes. That day (no doubt) he would celebrate …
    With rule
    … noyse and roryng of the gūnes would much more delight hys eares, then any musicallmusical harmony of swete songes, or pleasant instrumētes. That day (no doubt) he would celebrate …

    Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (68)

26 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 42 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Jewel of Joy A06898

  • Printed
    … vanish awai? yea howe sone are we weary of thē, if measure be exceded? MusicallMusical instrumentes fede the eare with very swete and pleasaunte armony, and for a tyme …
    With rule
    … vanish awai? yea howe sone are we weary of thē, if measure be exceded? MusicallMusical instrumentes fede the eare with very swete and pleasaunte armony, and for a tyme …

    Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

  • Printed
    … all types and figures now ceasing, whence hath the Church so many Organs and MusicallMusical Instruments? To what purpose, I demand, is that terrible blowing of Belloes, expressing rather …
    With rule
    … all types and figures now ceasing, whence hath the Church so many Organs and MusicallMusical Instruments? To what purpose, I demand, is that terrible blowing of Belloes, expressing rather …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 274 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … and downe the countrey. Marsyas romed with her, who after, being ouercome in a MusicallMusical contention of Apollo, was flaied quicke. After these things did Apollo loue Cybele, with …
    With rule
    … and downe the countrey. Marsyas romed with her, who after, being ouercome in a MusicallMusical contention of Apollo, was flaied quicke. After these things did Apollo loue Cybele, with …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 273 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … a strong Feuer, gotten before in the waters of Cidnus, and celebrated Gymnicall and MusicallMusical Games. The Corycian and Triphonian Dennes or Caues were held in much veneration among …
    With rule
    … a strong Feuer, gotten before in the waters of Cidnus, and celebrated Gymnicall and MusicallMusical Games. The Corycian and Triphonian Dennes or Caues were held in much veneration among …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 285 · Open in the reader

The Amendment of Life A13339

  • Printed
    … ſaith Epictetus, is eſtemed by his virtue: & ſhal man be ſo by his wealth. MuſicallMusical inſtruments are to no vſe to him that cannot play vpon them, & ſo are …
    With rule
    … ſaith Epictetus, is eſtemed by his virtue: & ſhal man be ſo by his wealth. MuſicallMusical inſtruments are to no vſe to him that cannot play vpon them, & ſo are …

    Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 161 · Open in the reader

King Solomons Solace A18017

  • Printed
    … Milner: of the waking vp at the Cocke-crowing: of the abaſing of the MuſicallMusical daughters: of the dread of high climbing: of the flouriſhing of the Almond tree …
    With rule
    … Milner: of the waking vp at the Cocke-crowing: of the abaſing of the MuſicallMusical daughters: of the dread of high climbing: of the flouriſhing of the Almond tree …

    John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Rubies, Tophas, Diamond, Thurkoie, Onyx, Iaſper, Saphyr, Emeralde, Carbuncle and gold: with Tymbrels and MuſicallMusical pipes: he was as an annointed Cherub and holy, placed in the ſacred mount …
    With rule
    … Rubies, Tophas, Diamond, Thurkoie, Onyx, Iaſper, Saphyr, Emeralde, Carbuncle and gold: with Tymbrels and MuſicallMusical pipes: he was as an annointed Cherub and holy, placed in the ſacred mount …

    John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Similes A18271

  • Printed
    14 As MuſicallMusical inſtruments, are to no vſe to him that cannot play vppon them: So are …
    With rule
    14 As MuſicallMusical inſtruments, are to no vſe to him that cannot play vppon them: So are …

    Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 627 · Open in the reader

Eighty Sermons A20637

  • Printed
    … in the Scriptures, and ſignifies nothing but a ſound; a voyce, a word, a MuſicallMusical ayre dyes, and evaporates, what wonder if man, that is but Iſhe, a ſound …
    With rule
    … in the Scriptures, and ſignifies nothing but a ſound; a voyce, a word, a MuſicallMusical ayre dyes, and evaporates, what wonder if man, that is but Iſhe, a ſound …

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Selal, which ſignifies Attollere, To lift up, they think it to be but a MuſicallMusical note, for the raiſing of the voyce, at that part of the Pſalme, where …
    With rule
    … Selal, which ſignifies Attollere, To lift up, they think it to be but a MuſicallMusical note, for the raiſing of the voyce, at that part of the Pſalme, where …

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 579 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Pſalmes, and twice in one Chapter, in the Prophet Habakkuk, which is a MuſicallMusical, a Metricall Chapter. In the Latine Tranſlation, and in the Arabique Tranſlation of the …
    With rule
    … the Pſalmes, and twice in one Chapter, in the Prophet Habakkuk, which is a MuſicallMusical, a Metricall Chapter. In the Latine Tranſlation, and in the Arabique Tranſlation of the …

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 579 · Open in the reader

Singing of Psalms a Gospel Ordinance A34693

  • Printed
    … the Temple-worship. 1. Because they are appointed to be sung by proper Officers and MusicallMusical Instruments, belonging to the Temple, as appeareth by the Titles of severall Psalmes. 2. Because …
    With rule
    … the Temple-worship. 1. Because they are appointed to be sung by proper Officers and MusicallMusical Instruments, belonging to the Temple, as appeareth by the Titles of severall Psalmes. 2. Because …

    John Cotton · Singing of Psalms a Gospel Ordinance · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Though some of Davids Psalmes were appointed to be sung by the Officers and MusicallMusical Instruments of the Temple, yet not above one part of three, considering the length …
    With rule
    … Though some of Davids Psalmes were appointed to be sung by the Officers and MusicallMusical Instruments of the Temple, yet not above one part of three, considering the length …

    John Cotton · Singing of Psalms a Gospel Ordinance · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of those Questions and Answers ad Orthodoxes amongst his works, though he speak of MusicallMusical Instruments, as utterly unfit for Church Assemblies, yet simple singing with the voyce he …
    With rule
    … of those Questions and Answers ad Orthodoxes amongst his works, though he speak of MusicallMusical Instruments, as utterly unfit for Church Assemblies, yet simple singing with the voyce he …

    John Cotton · Singing of Psalms a Gospel Ordinance · p. 66 · Open in the reader

Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland A42758

  • Printed
    … it was Jewish, it had Musitians to play upon Harpes, Psalteries, Cymbals, and other MusicallMusical Instruments in the Temple, 1 Chron. 25.1. concerning which, hear Bellarmines confession, de bon. oper. lib …
    With rule
    … it was Jewish, it had Musitians to play upon Harpes, Psalteries, Cymbals, and other MusicallMusical Instruments in the Temple, 1 Chron. 25.1. concerning which, hear Bellarmines confession, de bon. oper. lib …

    George Gillespie · Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland · p. 17 · Open in the reader

Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms A45442

  • Printed
    … understood from foreign in the notion of exaltavit. For foreign regularly signifies no more then a MusicallMusical note, and every such note we know is in propriety of speech foreign a change …
    With rule
    … understood from foreign in the notion of exaltavit. For foreign regularly signifies no more then a MusicallMusical note, and every such note we know is in propriety of speech foreign a change …

    Henry Hammond · Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms · p. 24 · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry A46807

  • Printed
    … mere conjectures, concerning this word Shiggaion: as that it was the name of ſome MuſicallMusical Inſtrument, to which this Pſalm was to be ſung; or the name of ſome …
    With rule
    … mere conjectures, concerning this word Shiggaion: as that it was the name of ſome MuſicallMusical Inſtrument, to which this Pſalm was to be ſung; or the name of ſome …

    Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry · p. 324 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is by many ſaid of this, as that it was the name of ſome MuſicallMusical Inſtrument, Song or Tune. Beſides ſome make it a word compounded of (mach) which …
    With rule
    … is by many ſaid of this, as that it was the name of ſome MuſicallMusical Inſtrument, Song or Tune. Beſides ſome make it a word compounded of (mach) which …

    Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry · p. 347 · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the Historical Books Part 2 A46811

  • Printed
    … that he ſhall play with his hand, and thou ſhalt be well.] Not that MuſicallMusical ſounds have any force to drive away devils, but becauſe they conceived that his …
    With rule
    … that he ſhall play with his hand, and thou ſhalt be well.] Not that MuſicallMusical ſounds have any force to drive away devils, but becauſe they conceived that his …

    Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Historical Books Part 2 · p. 288 · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the New Testament A50050

  • Printed
    … of these three things, and among the rest to praise God in Verse or MusicallMusical composure. Two places of Scripture, 1 Chron. 25.1, &c. 1 Sam. 10.5. prove this.
    With rule
    … of these three things, and among the rest to praise God in Verse or MusicallMusical composure. Two places of Scripture, 1 Chron. 25.1, &c. 1 Sam. 10.5. prove this.

    Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 243 · Open in the reader

Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble A57143

  • Printed
    … he will overcome when hee judgeth, and therefore will judge till he overcome. In MusicallMusical Notes there are but eight degrees, and then the same returnes againe; and Philosophers …
    With rule
    … he will overcome when hee judgeth, and therefore will judge till he overcome. In MusicallMusical Notes there are but eight degrees, and then the same returnes againe; and Philosophers …

    Edward Reynolds · Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble · p. 155 · Open in the reader

Altars Altar A60395

  • Printed
    … and injunctions; And againe, ſo ſtrange, ridiculous, and idolatrous geſtures, with exceſſive noiſe of MuſicallMusical harmony, both inſtrumentall and vocall, at the ſame time, as the like was never …
    With rule
    … and injunctions; And againe, ſo ſtrange, ridiculous, and idolatrous geſtures, with exceſſive noiſe of MuſicallMusical harmony, both inſtrumentall and vocall, at the ſame time, as the like was never …

    Peter Smart · Altars Altar · p. 8 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

  • Printed
    MusicallMusical]
    With rule
    MusicallMusical]

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 427 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and cunning in … timber, 2 Chron. 2. 8. Destroying, Ezek. 21. 31. Graving, 2 Chr. 2. 7. Hewing timber, 1 King. 5. 9. Lamenting, Amos 5. 16. MusicallMusical instruments, 2 Chr. 34. 12. Any manner of service, 1 Chr. 48. 21. Singing, 1 Chr. 15. 22. War, Ib. 5. 18. Wisdome, knowledge, and …
    With rule
    … and cunning in … timber, 2 Chron. 2. 8. Destroying, Ezek. 21. 31. Graving, 2 Chr. 2. 7. Hewing timber, 1 King. 5. 9. Lamenting, Amos 5. 16. MusicallMusical instruments, 2 Chr. 34. 12. Any manner of service, 1 Chr. 48. 21. Singing, 1 Chr. 15. 22. War, Ib. 5. 18. Wisdome, knowledge, and …

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 594 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … called of olp Chinnereth, whence the Latine word canere to sing, foreign cinnor signifyeth a MusicallMusical instrument. Junius rendreth it, an harp, whence haply the old … had its name. Pasor …
    With rule
    … called of olp Chinnereth, whence the Latine word canere to sing, foreign cinnor signifyeth a MusicallMusical instrument. Junius rendreth it, an harp, whence haply the old … had its name. Pasor …

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 658 · Open in the reader

The Voice of the Turtle A89518

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    … the courſe of Abi…, went in by lot to burne Incenſe, Luk. 1.9 The Levites MuſicallMusical, and Porters decided by Lot, what courſe ſhould be obſerved in their miniſteriall and …
    With rule
    … the courſe of Abi…, went in by lot to burne Incenſe, Luk. 1.9 The Levites MuſicallMusical, and Porters decided by Lot, what courſe ſhould be obſerved in their miniſteriall and …

    Edward Marbury · The Voice of the Turtle · p. 14 · Open in the reader