Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10863 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ptolomyPtolemy

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

Puritas changed it: 458 times in 143 works
Consistency: 100% (458 of 458)
Reach if approved: ~481 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ptolemy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 458 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (458 changes in 143 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 458)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to be continually varied: when nevertheleſſe it is alwaies carried in one meaſure. Yet PtolomyPtolemy thought otherwiſe of it; and it wat otherwiſe found out by Rabbi Levi, Avenezra …
With rule
… to be continually varied: when nevertheleſſe it is alwaies carried in one meaſure. Yet PtolomyPtolemy thought otherwiſe of it; and it wat otherwiſe found out by Rabbi Levi, Avenezra …
John Gaule · Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Spirits Divinations · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Curtius, Plime, and Solinus, the miraculous fertilitie of that part of Babylonia, which PtolomyPtolemy calleth Auranitis or Audanitis, easily declined from Heden, the name given by Moses, mentioned …
With rule
… of Curtius, Plime, and Solinus, the miraculous fertilitie of that part of Babylonia, which PtolomyPtolemy calleth Auranitis or Audanitis, easily declined from Heden, the name given by Moses, mentioned …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
PtolomyPtolemy philadelpbus. 21. 3.
With rule
PtolomyPtolemy philadelpbus. 21. 3.
Hugh Broughton · A Direction to Find All those Names in a Table of Genealogies · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſentences & divine propheſies, the which afterward, that is to ſay, in the raigne of PtolomyPtolemy Euergetes the Aegytian K. (a little before the daies of Iudas Macchabeus, and about …
With rule
… ſentences & divine propheſies, the which afterward, that is to ſay, in the raigne of PtolomyPtolemy Euergetes the Aegytian K. (a little before the daies of Iudas Macchabeus, and about …
John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſcribed. Whom Solomon now celebrates for her moſt venerable Antiquity, as Ariſtobulus obſerves to PtolomyPtolemy (in Euſebius his Praepar. Evang. L. XIII. p. 667.) and introduces like a moſt beautifull …
With rule
… deſcribed. Whom Solomon now celebrates for her moſt venerable Antiquity, as Ariſtobulus obſerves to PtolomyPtolemy (in Euſebius his Praepar. Evang. L. XIII. p. 667.) and introduces like a moſt beautifull …
Simon Patrick · The Book of Proverbs Paraphrased · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Victorious, as in all other his enterprises he had been, and the young King PtolomyPtolemy was slaine in fight. In this Warre Caesar did such exploits, and behaved himself …
With rule
… Victorious, as in all other his enterprises he had been, and the young King PtolomyPtolemy was slaine in fight. In this Warre Caesar did such exploits, and behaved himself …
Samuel Clarke · the Life and Death of Julius Caesar · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath not worth a fig, nor is this reaſon much better. It's known that PtolomyPtolemy King of Egypt had together certaine Learned Jewes, skilful in the Greek Language, in …
With rule
… hath not worth a fig, nor is this reaſon much better. It's known that PtolomyPtolemy King of Egypt had together certaine Learned Jewes, skilful in the Greek Language, in …
Richard Capel · Capels Remains · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vulgo) my own judgement remonstrating against the same, finding the City called Mariadunum in PtolomyPtolemy, before Merlins Cradle was ever made, if Merlins Cradle was ever made.
With rule
… vulgo) my own judgement remonstrating against the same, finding the City called Mariadunum in PtolomyPtolemy, before Merlins Cradle was ever made, if Merlins Cradle was ever made.
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 29 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.