Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10870 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

surgionSurgeon

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

Puritas changed it: 83 times in 47 works
Consistency: 91.2% (83 of 91)
Reach if approved: ~96 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: surgeon
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 91 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (83 changes in 47 works, 91.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 83)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… warre: and there taken, and wounded, and by them (through the meanes of his SurgionSurgeon) ſlaine.
With rule
… warre: and there taken, and wounded, and by them (through the meanes of his SurgionSurgeon) ſlaine.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 210 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſpeake that which will pleaſe you. There is a wholſome ſeveritie and ſharpneſſe. The SurgionSurgeon helpes by lancing and applying corroſives, aſwell as by gentle ſalves.
With rule
… ſpeake that which will pleaſe you. There is a wholſome ſeveritie and ſharpneſſe. The SurgionSurgeon helpes by lancing and applying corroſives, aſwell as by gentle ſalves.
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee muſt apply the plaſter according to the wound. Hee can be no compleat SurgionSurgeon that hath but one ſalue, and that for ſome greene wound only, to clenſe …
With rule
… hee muſt apply the plaſter according to the wound. Hee can be no compleat SurgionSurgeon that hath but one ſalue, and that for ſome greene wound only, to clenſe …
Samuel Smith · The Ethiopian Eunuchs Conversion · p. 395 · Open in the reader
Printed
With gladneſſe lets the SurgionSurgeon ſearch his Wounds;
With rule
With gladneſſe lets the SurgionSurgeon ſearch his Wounds;
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wil miniſter Phiſicke to a whole man? Woulde you not thinke him an vnſkilfull SurgionSurgeon, that will applie a gentle ſalue to an olde feſtered ſore, and not rather …
With rule
… wil miniſter Phiſicke to a whole man? Woulde you not thinke him an vnſkilfull SurgionSurgeon, that will applie a gentle ſalue to an olde feſtered ſore, and not rather …
Arthur Dent · A Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader
Printed
… Patient, though he smart when the wound is dressed, yet thanketh and feeth the SurgionSurgeon for his pains, in hope of future ease: so the Christian, though these temporal …
With rule
… Patient, though he smart when the wound is dressed, yet thanketh and feeth the SurgionSurgeon for his pains, in hope of future ease: so the Christian, though these temporal …
Robert Sanderson · Fourteen Sermons · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſyn by the greatnes of the SurgionSurgeon and of the ſalue, Who was the SurgionSurgeon: No Angel, no Saint, no Archangel, no power, no creature in heauen nor in …
With rule
… ſyn by the greatnes of the SurgionSurgeon and of the ſalue, Who was the SurgionSurgeon: No Angel, no Saint, no Archangel, no power, no creature in heauen nor in …
John Bradford · Two Notable Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… Meane while the Patient lying in paine, counteth every minute an houre till the SurgionSurgeon come backe againe, and if he ſtay long, thinketh that ſure hee hath forgotten …
With rule
… Meane while the Patient lying in paine, counteth every minute an houre till the SurgionSurgeon come backe againe, and if he ſtay long, thinketh that ſure hee hath forgotten …
Thomas Gataker · Sermon Preached Several Times · p. 322 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

3 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.

Sermon of Repentance A16590

Printed
… man woulde ſaye, to take oure nature and become man? Here haue ye the ſurgionSurgeon, greate was the cure that this mightye Lorde toke in hande.
With rule
… man woulde ſaye, to take oure nature and become man? Here haue ye the ſurgionSurgeon, greate was the cure that this mightye Lorde toke in hande.
John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

Printed
… reſt: he ceaſſeth not to holde out ſtill, in beſeeching him to playe the ſurgionSurgeon in healing of the woundes that he hath made. To be ſhort, Gods children …
With rule
… reſt: he ceaſſeth not to holde out ſtill, in beſeeching him to playe the ſurgionSurgeon in healing of the woundes that he hath made. To be ſhort, Gods children …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 507 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which they poſſeſſe, would bee as a noy ſome ſuperfluitie to them. VVhen a ſurgionSurgeon letteth a man bloud: it ſeemeth to bee to his hurt, and in verie …
With rule
… which they poſſeſſe, would bee as a noy ſome ſuperfluitie to them. VVhen a ſurgionSurgeon letteth a man bloud: it ſeemeth to bee to his hurt, and in verie …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 512 · Open in the reader