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ciliciaSilicia

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
877 times in 213 works
Consistency
99.6% (877 of 880)
Reach if approved
~941 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: cilicia
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
896 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (877 changes in 213 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 877)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … next Council we meet with is Concil. Iconiense an. 258. where the Bishops of Cappadocia, CiliciaSilicia, Galatia, and other Oriental Provinces at Iconium in Phrygia, Decreed that the Baptisms of …
    With rule
    … next Council we meet with is Concil. Iconiense an. 258. where the Bishops of Cappadocia, CiliciaSilicia, Galatia, and other Oriental Provinces at Iconium in Phrygia, Decreed that the Baptisms of …

    Richard Baxter · Church History of the Government of Bishops and Their Councils · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … entrance into Aegypt (which he tooke without blowes, as also he did Rhodes and CiliciaSilicia) he practised and suborned the Priests that ministred at the Oracle of Hammon, to …
    With rule
    … entrance into Aegypt (which he tooke without blowes, as also he did Rhodes and CiliciaSilicia) he practised and suborned the Priests that ministred at the Oracle of Hammon, to …

    Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … as ſaith S. Paul, a famous citie, but as Strabo, a famous Ʋniuerſity in CiliciaSilicia, in ſome reſpects preferred before Athens. And yet fled Ionah flying thither from Gods …
    With rule
    … as ſaith S. Paul, a famous citie, but as Strabo, a famous Ʋniuerſity in CiliciaSilicia, in ſome reſpects preferred before Athens. And yet fled Ionah flying thither from Gods …

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Sydon a citie in CiliciaSilicia.
    With rule
    Sydon a citie in CiliciaSilicia.

    Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 265 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sonne of Noah, Ger. 10. 4. of whom Tarsus (mentioned in Act. 21. 34.) the chiefe citie of CiliciaSilicia in Syria had the n…m…. From thence they went by shipping into farre …
    With rule
    … sonne of Noah, Ger. 10. 4. of whom Tarsus (mentioned in Act. 21. 34.) the chiefe citie of CiliciaSilicia in Syria had the n…m…. From thence they went by shipping into farre …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Mercer. But Kittim are rather the people called Citii, inhabiting in Asia, neare to CiliciaSilicia: of whom that City in Cyprus might be so called.
    With rule
    … Mercer. But Kittim are rather the people called Citii, inhabiting in Asia, neare to CiliciaSilicia: of whom that City in Cyprus might be so called.

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … heere be knowen. To Iapheths Iauan, God left it: and ſpread his race from CiliciaSilicia ouer the West: that Bardi Caeſar. Cō. in France, and our Cambria kept Greeke …
    With rule
    … heere be knowen. To Iapheths Iauan, God left it: and ſpread his race from CiliciaSilicia ouer the West: that Bardi Caeſar. Cō. in France, and our Cambria kept Greeke …

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … had bin in Arabie and gone about all that land: he had bin in CiliciaSilicia where he was borne, and alſo in Syria: and afterward hauing firſte gone about …
    With rule
    … had bin in Arabie and gone about all that land: he had bin in CiliciaSilicia where he was borne, and alſo in Syria: and afterward hauing firſte gone about …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Players Scourge A10187

  • Printed
    … into 10 Praefectures, 5 of them scituated towards the hill Taurus; to wit, Praetura Melitina, Cataonia, CILICIASILICIA, (which AEneas Sylvius stiles, CiliciaSilicia Strategia) Tyanensis & Isauriensis; the other 5 intituled, Lavinasena, Sargasena, Sarauna …
    With rule
    … into 10 Praefectures, 5 of them scituated towards the hill Taurus; to wit, Praetura Melitina, Cataonia, CILICIASILICIA, (which AEneas Sylvius stiles, CiliciaSilicia Strategia) Tyanensis & Isauriensis; the other 5 intituled, Lavinasena, Sargasena, Sarauna …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 668 · Open in the reader

A New Description of the World A33342

  • Printed
    CILICIASILICIA has Pamphylia on the West, and is a very fruitful Country, especially on the …
    With rule
    CILICIASILICIA has Pamphylia on the West, and is a very fruitful Country, especially on the …

    Samuel Clarke · A New Description of the World · p. 110 · Open in the reader