Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9604 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

seiz'dseized

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 268 times in 166 works
Consistency: 95.3% (268 of 281)
Reach if approved: ~295 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: seized
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 281 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (268 changes in 166 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 268)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… have brought on him in an exquiſite manner many years, and at laſt either ſeiz'dseized on by the hand of Juſtice, and delivered to a wittily tormenting Death, or …
With rule
… have brought on him in an exquiſite manner many years, and at laſt either ſeiz'dseized on by the hand of Juſtice, and delivered to a wittily tormenting Death, or …
Henry Hammond · Judgment Worthy of God · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
4. That the conceipt of the everlastingnesse of the torments, when they are now already seiz'dseized upon the soule, and hopelesnesse of ever coming out of hell, wilbe yet another …
With rule
4. That the conceipt of the everlastingnesse of the torments, when they are now already seiz'dseized upon the soule, and hopelesnesse of ever coming out of hell, wilbe yet another …
Robert Bolton · Death Judgment Hell and Heaven · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
Once Way-laid, to be ſeiz'dseized Hell's Priſoner;
With rule
Once Way-laid, to be ſeiz'dseized Hell's Priſoner;
Samuel Annesley · The Life and Funeral Sermon of the Reverent Thomas Brand · Open in the reader
Printed
… Importance. If a Friend discovers by indications and symptoms, a disease that insensibly has seiz'dseized on us, does not his compassionate Advice endear him to us? How much rather …
With rule
… Importance. If a Friend discovers by indications and symptoms, a disease that insensibly has seiz'dseized on us, does not his compassionate Advice endear him to us? How much rather …
William Bates · Spiritual Perfection Unfolded and Enforced from 2 Corinthians 7:1 · p. 331 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Darkneſs, Ignorance, Barbariſm, upon the Chriſtian World; in which, Men of the beſt Note ſeiz'dseized upon ſuch Expreſſions of Scripture, and the Fathers, whoſe Sepulchres they built, and garniſhed …
With rule
… Darkneſs, Ignorance, Barbariſm, upon the Chriſtian World; in which, Men of the beſt Note ſeiz'dseized upon ſuch Expreſſions of Scripture, and the Fathers, whoſe Sepulchres they built, and garniſhed …
Thomas Beverley · A Sermon of the True Spiritual Transubstantiation · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had bin put off a great while, so that when once their Debter is seiz'dseized upon, they lay all their Actions against him, that they may be sure to …
With rule
… had bin put off a great while, so that when once their Debter is seiz'dseized upon, they lay all their Actions against him, that they may be sure to …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… come in, while I am ſpeaking. Death hath taken poſſeſsion of me already, and ſeiz'dseized my port: death is in my face, I am the very picture of death …
With rule
… come in, while I am ſpeaking. Death hath taken poſſeſsion of me already, and ſeiz'dseized my port: death is in my face, I am the very picture of death …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 579 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of him and his; him they ſcorn'd and vilified, and what was his they ſeiz'dseized upon: Lavater ſaith his body lay unburied, that Crows, Ravens, Vultures, and ſuch like …
With rule
… of him and his; him they ſcorn'd and vilified, and what was his they ſeiz'dseized upon: Lavater ſaith his body lay unburied, that Crows, Ravens, Vultures, and ſuch like …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 30-48 · p. 52 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

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

An Exposition of the Song of Songs A27602

Printed
Seiz'dSeized with thy Holy Flames, they meet in Sholes
With rule
Seiz'dSeized with thy Holy Flames, they meet in Sholes
Thomas Beverley · An Exposition of the Song of Songs · p. 4 · Open in the reader

A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions A28159

Printed
Seiz'dSeized on by Catholicks and runagates.
With rule
Seiz'dSeized on by Catholicks and runagates.
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 102 · Open in the reader

Letters of State A50909

Printed
… to embody their own ſtrength, and reſcue from the hands of Pyrates the Perſons Seiz'dSeized on in that River, of which your City is the Miſtreſs, not without extream …
With rule
… to embody their own ſtrength, and reſcue from the hands of Pyrates the Perſons Seiz'dSeized on in that River, of which your City is the Miſtreſs, not without extream …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… others, have made their Complaints unto us, That upon the 28th. of November, 1651. having Seiz'dSeized upon a hunder'd Butts of Caveare in the Veſſel call'd the Swallow, Riding in …
With rule
… others, have made their Complaints unto us, That upon the 28th. of November, 1651. having Seiz'dSeized upon a hunder'd Butts of Caveare in the Veſſel call'd the Swallow, Riding in …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have proceeded in his Voyage, but that the Ship for this reaſon was immediately Seiz'dSeized and detain'd with all her Lading. After due conſideration of which Complaints, we Wrote …
With rule
… have proceeded in his Voyage, but that the Ship for this reaſon was immediately Seiz'dSeized and detain'd with all her Lading. After due conſideration of which Complaints, we Wrote …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him by the Parlament for ſeveral Goods of his which in the year 1642. were Seiz'dSeized by Authority of Parlament▪ in a … Ship call'd the Santa Clar… … in manifeſt, That …
With rule
… him by the Parlament for ſeveral Goods of his which in the year 1642. were Seiz'dSeized by Authority of Parlament▪ in a … Ship call'd the Santa Clar… … in manifeſt, That …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 270 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ignominiouſly broke his Faith with the Turks, and the Ship and Goods to be Seiz'dSeized and Detain'd, till Reſtitution ſhould be made to the Turks, leaſt the Cnriſtian Name …
With rule
… ignominiouſly broke his Faith with the Turks, and the Ship and Goods to be Seiz'dSeized and Detain'd, till Reſtitution ſhould be made to the Turks, leaſt the Cnriſtian Name …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 282 · Open in the reader

Improvement of Imprisonment A66756

Printed
(Seiz'dSeized lately in my Chamber by ſurprize)
With rule
(Seiz'dSeized lately in my Chamber by ſurprize)
George Wither · Improvement of Imprisonment · p. 116 · Open in the reader