Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8536 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

raylerail

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

Puritas changed it: 372 times in 189 works
Consistency: 92.5% (372 of 402)
Reach if approved: ~422 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: rail
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 402 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (372 changes in 189 works, 92.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 372)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… predestinate. How soeuer therefore it bee that Bristowe is disposed for to lye and raylerail, they that either heare our Sermons or reade our Bookes of Iustification by Faith …
With rule
… predestinate. How soeuer therefore it bee that Bristowe is disposed for to lye and raylerail, they that either heare our Sermons or reade our Bookes of Iustification by Faith …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… kindneſſe ſhewed to me, And to ſtop the mouthes of ſome malicious Papiſts that raylerail againſt me, I truſt that your Honour will accept of this my weake endeauour …
With rule
… kindneſſe ſhewed to me, And to ſtop the mouthes of ſome malicious Papiſts that raylerail againſt me, I truſt that your Honour will accept of this my weake endeauour …
John Harding · A Recantation · Open in the reader
Printed
And to auoyde fornication, let … man haue his owne wyfe. Well, let them raylerail, let them doo what they canne agaynste the truth, …: marke the ende. Loke vppon …
With rule
And to auoyde fornication, let … man haue his owne wyfe. Well, let them raylerail, let them doo what they canne agaynste the truth, …: marke the ende. Loke vppon …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the chiefest did as it were blow the Trumpe vnto the rest, to raylerail, rore, rage and crie out, whereby it appeareth they neuer sought for the veritie …
With rule
… and the chiefest did as it were blow the Trumpe vnto the rest, to raylerail, rore, rage and crie out, whereby it appeareth they neuer sought for the veritie …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Lord: Bleſſed ſhall you be when men hate you, and ſeparate you, and raylerail vpon you, and put out your … as euil, for the ſonne of mans ſake …
With rule
… our Lord: Bleſſed ſhall you be when men hate you, and ſeparate you, and raylerail vpon you, and put out your … as euil, for the ſonne of mans ſake …
Oliver Pigg · Treatise on 1 Peter 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… than that others did; that Abſolom ſhould ſeeke his life, than that Shemei ſhould raylerail vpon him. And thou my ſonne Brutus, art thou one of them, ſaid Iulius …
With rule
… than that others did; that Abſolom ſhould ſeeke his life, than that Shemei ſhould raylerail vpon him. And thou my ſonne Brutus, art thou one of them, ſaid Iulius …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Angels ſhoute at him, and the Saintes laugh at him, and the deuils raylerail at him, and many looke him in the face, and they that ſaid they …
With rule
… the Angels ſhoute at him, and the Saintes laugh at him, and the deuils raylerail at him, and many looke him in the face, and they that ſaid they …
Henry Smith · Two Sermons of Jonahs Punishment · Open in the reader
Printed
And I insure you / they that call my Lorde of Winchester a Wolfe do raylerail.
With rule
And I insure you / they that call my Lorde of Winchester a Wolfe do raylerail.
William Turner · The Hunting of the Fox and the Wolf · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (30)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 are listed here. 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word A02797

Printed
… hauing perfectlie learned the olde lesson of the schoolemaster of rayling, Calumniare audacter, &c. RayleRail and slaunder boldlie; for though the wound may be cured, yet a blemish or …
With rule
… hauing perfectlie learned the olde lesson of the schoolemaster of rayling, Calumniare audacter, &c. RayleRail and slaunder boldlie; for though the wound may be cured, yet a blemish or …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 153 · Open in the reader

A Quench-Coal A10197

Printed
That men ought to bow to Altars and Communion-Tables, and to place and RayleRail them in Altar-wise at the East end of the Church, and come up …
With rule
That men ought to bow to Altars and Communion-Tables, and to place and RayleRail them in Altar-wise at the East end of the Church, and come up …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 63 · Open in the reader

A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 A45335

Printed
… Have we not those that speak basely of the sacred Scriptures, Cry down Magistracy, RayleRail on the Ministery, Revile Reall Saints? Lastly, is not Gods Name blasphemed, and that …
With rule
… Have we not those that speak basely of the sacred Scriptures, Cry down Magistracy, RayleRail on the Ministery, Revile Reall Saints? Lastly, is not Gods Name blasphemed, and that …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… contemn the scriptures, vilify Prayer, and all Ordinances, never give Thanks at their meales, RayleRail on Magistrates and Ministers, dishonour their Parents, out-run their wives, neglect their families …
With rule
… contemn the scriptures, vilify Prayer, and all Ordinances, never give Thanks at their meales, RayleRail on Magistrates and Ministers, dishonour their Parents, out-run their wives, neglect their families …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 128 · Open in the reader

The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy A56127

Printed
III. He in the same yeare 1636. enjoyned that there should be a RayleRail set on the top of the new raised steps before the Communion Table so …
With rule
III. He in the same yeare 1636. enjoyned that there should be a RayleRail set on the top of the new raised steps before the Communion Table so …
William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 267 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hee in the said yeare 1636, enjoyned all the people to come up to the RayleRail to receive the holy Communion, and there kneele, and doe reverence before the holy …
With rule
… Hee in the said yeare 1636, enjoyned all the people to come up to the RayleRail to receive the holy Communion, and there kneele, and doe reverence before the holy …
William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… up, and do such reverence as aforesaid, And that the Minister should within the RayleRail deliver the Bread to such people onely as should so come up and kneele …
With rule
… up, and do such reverence as aforesaid, And that the Minister should within the RayleRail deliver the Bread to such people onely as should so come up and kneele …
William Prynne · The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy · p. 268 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

Printed
… from the beginning of Reformation till his comming to the Arch-Biſhopricke without any RayleRail about it, into a New Altar placed Altarwiſe againſt the Wall, with the ends …
With rule
… from the beginning of Reformation till his comming to the Arch-Biſhopricke without any RayleRail about it, into a New Altar placed Altarwiſe againſt the Wall, with the ends …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Communicants, much leſſe to kneele conveniently all at once: To come before the RayleRail hath more analogy with Antiquity, then ſome men have ſeene, or others will. In …
With rule
… the Communicants, much leſſe to kneele conveniently all at once: To come before the RayleRail hath more analogy with Antiquity, then ſome men have ſeene, or others will. In …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… clauſe in D. Clerks Letter to Sir Iohn Lambe concerning the removall of the RayleRail and Communion Table at Northampton during the plague there.
With rule
… clauſe in D. Clerks Letter to Sir Iohn Lambe concerning the removall of the RayleRail and Communion Table at Northampton during the plague there.
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it with a bench thereunto affixed, whereon the communicants might kneele: that accordingly a RayleRail with ſuch a bench was ſet afterwards about the Communion Table in the middle …
With rule
… it with a bench thereunto affixed, whereon the communicants might kneele: that accordingly a RayleRail with ſuch a bench was ſet afterwards about the Communion Table in the middle …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… towards the Chancel, which Chancel was then paved: when they approached near to the RayleRail and Lords Table, unto which was an aſcent of two or three ſteps, the …
With rule
… towards the Chancel, which Chancel was then paved: when they approached near to the RayleRail and Lords Table, unto which was an aſcent of two or three ſteps, the …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 113 · Open in the reader