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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7991 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ordayneordain

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
122 times in 55 works
Consistency
100% (122 of 122)
Reach if approved
~128 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ordain
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
122 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (122 changes in 55 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 122)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … could like alſo the ordinance of the miniſteries (for the commaundement of God, to ordayneordain Miniſters, and the promiſe of God to aſſiſt and bleſſe the Miniſtery of ſuch …
    With rule
    … could like alſo the ordinance of the miniſteries (for the commaundement of God, to ordayneordain Miniſters, and the promiſe of God to aſſiſt and bleſſe the Miniſtery of ſuch …

    Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … leaue the making of a proude trayterous Prelate to his king a Saint; to ordayneordain seruice &c to Creatures in steede of the Creator; To talke also of Thomas …
    With rule
    … leaue the making of a proude trayterous Prelate to his king a Saint; to ordayneordain seruice &c to Creatures in steede of the Creator; To talke also of Thomas …

    Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Lorde instituted, are nought else but verie abominacyon. For the Lorde dyd not ordayneordain that the prist only should seuerally satisfie him selfe after he had fynished his …
    With rule
    … the Lorde instituted, are nought else but verie abominacyon. For the Lorde dyd not ordayneordain that the prist only should seuerally satisfie him selfe after he had fynished his …

    John Calvin · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    CHRIST dyd not ordayneordain his sacramentes to this vse, that one should receiue them for another, or the …
    With rule
    CHRIST dyd not ordayneordain his sacramentes to this vse, that one should receiue them for another, or the …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of his bodye. This was Christes last supper before his passion, wherin he did ordayneordain the sacrament of his body, as all learned men doo agree.
    With rule
    … of his bodye. This was Christes last supper before his passion, wherin he did ordayneordain the sacrament of his body, as all learned men doo agree.

    Nicholas Ridley · The Lords Supper · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … thē euer secretly / so that they can not erre whatsoeuer they saye / doo or ordayneordain Vvhate wilt thou despice the blessed sacramentes of holy church wherwith god hath bene …
    With rule
    … thē euer secretly / so that they can not erre whatsoeuer they saye / doo or ordayneordain Vvhate wilt thou despice the blessed sacramentes of holy church wherwith god hath bene …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in Demoſthenes: foreign. Which of the Lawes the Nomothetae (which were the principall Authors) ſhall ordayneordain or constitute by lifting vp of handes the ſame is ratified. Where notwithſtanding, the …
    With rule
    … in Demoſthenes: foreign. Which of the Lawes the Nomothetae (which were the principall Authors) ſhall ordayneordain or constitute by lifting vp of handes the ſame is ratified. Where notwithſtanding, the …

    Henry Jacob · Necessity of Reforming Our Churches · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … yeſterday interrogated of theſe twoo Articles obiected by your moſt excellent Maieſty If page missing ſelues ordayneordain by proper lawes, as in the Diſtinct. 9. and. 25. q 1. and. 2. that the Popes lawes …
    With rule
    … yeſterday interrogated of theſe twoo Articles obiected by your moſt excellent Maieſty If page missing ſelues ordayneordain by proper lawes, as in the Diſtinct. 9. and. 25. q 1. and. 2. that the Popes lawes …

    Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · 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.