Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10858 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

metaphysicksMetaphysics

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

Puritas changed it: 423 times in 178 works
Consistency: 98.3% (423 of 430)
Reach if approved: ~452 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: metaphysics
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 430 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (423 changes in 178 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 423)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Learning by leisurable and slow steps, and skip not from the ABC to the MetaphysicksMetaphysics: And certainly the skill of Christian suffering is not the easiest of all Trades …
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… Learning by leisurable and slow steps, and skip not from the ABC to the MetaphysicksMetaphysics: And certainly the skill of Christian suffering is not the easiest of all Trades …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 100 · Open in the reader
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… is, no cauſal neceſsity at all, (as Rob. Baronius diſtinguiſheth it well in his MetaphyſicksMetaphysics.) To omit all the Diſtinctions of neceſſity which Hereboord, and many others give us …
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… is, no cauſal neceſsity at all, (as Rob. Baronius diſtinguiſheth it well in his MetaphyſicksMetaphysics.) To omit all the Diſtinctions of neceſſity which Hereboord, and many others give us …
Richard Baxter · Catholic Theology Plain Pure Peaceable · p. 11 · Open in the reader
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I am none of thoſe that blame you for too much of the MetaphyſicksMetaphysics, but rather mervail that you feared not leſt your Metaphyſical Reader will wrong you …
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I am none of thoſe that blame you for too much of the MetaphyſicksMetaphysics, but rather mervail that you feared not leſt your Metaphyſical Reader will wrong you …
Richard Baxter · Of Justification · p. 315 · Open in the reader
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… Atome, or Anima, or Spiritus, may be called totum, Scaliger, and the Schoolmen, and MetaphyſicksMetaphysics, commonly tell you. Are not whole ſtones part of Mountains? and whole Trees of …
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… Atome, or Anima, or Spiritus, may be called totum, Scaliger, and the Schoolmen, and MetaphyſicksMetaphysics, commonly tell you. Are not whole ſtones part of Mountains? and whole Trees of …
Richard Baxter · A Third Defense of Peace · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Instrument, or such an Instrumental cause, as Philosophers largely treate of, in the Logicks & MetaphysicksMetaphysics, knowing that the Effect here wrought is no Natural Effect, brought about by Natural …
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… Instrument, or such an Instrumental cause, as Philosophers largely treate of, in the Logicks & MetaphysicksMetaphysics, knowing that the Effect here wrought is no Natural Effect, brought about by Natural …
John Brown · The Life of Justification Opened · p. 349 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Heaven. They who have long studied the most refined and curious part of MetaphysicksMetaphysics, when they come to discourse of the distinction between a singular Nature and a …
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… in Heaven. They who have long studied the most refined and curious part of MetaphysicksMetaphysics, when they come to discourse of the distinction between a singular Nature and a …
Francis Cheynell · The Divine Triunity of the Father Son and Holy Spirit · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but husks, and this onely the ſolid food. If Plato and Ariſtotle's Philoſophie and MetaphyſicksMetaphysics can build up a ſoul to heaven, we may ſpare our bibles.
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… but husks, and this onely the ſolid food. If Plato and Ariſtotle's Philoſophie and MetaphyſicksMetaphysics can build up a ſoul to heaven, we may ſpare our bibles.
John Frost · Sermons Preached Upon Sundry Occasions · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… only in a Positive sense, as Aristotle hath determined in the Entrance to his MetaphysicksMetaphysics, but in a Superlative degree be verified, that He is by nature desirous of …
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… only in a Positive sense, as Aristotle hath determined in the Entrance to his MetaphysicksMetaphysics, but in a Superlative degree be verified, that He is by nature desirous of …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 438 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.