Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10921 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ecclesiasticksEcclesiastics

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

Puritas changed it: 283 times in 122 works
Consistency: 98.2% (283 of 288)
Reach if approved: ~303 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ecclesiastics
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 288 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (283 changes in 122 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 283)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the air of Eccleſiaſtick applauſe, then do they ſuit themſelves to the party of EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics that is moſt in credit. This is not a private, but an Epidemical malady …
With rule
… the air of Eccleſiaſtick applauſe, then do they ſuit themſelves to the party of EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics that is moſt in credit. This is not a private, but an Epidemical malady …
Richard Baxter · The Reformed Pastor · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be called the Morall Law; the brief Epitome of Chriſtian Ethick, Oeconomick, Politicks, and EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics, and of whatſoever du… we owe to God or man.
With rule
… be called the Morall Law; the brief Epitome of Chriſtian Ethick, Oeconomick, Politicks, and EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics, and of whatſoever du… we owe to God or man.
Richard Bernard · A Threefold Treatise of the Sabbath · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
The three states of the Empire are, 1. That of the aforesaid Electors, wherein the EcclesiasticksEcclesiastics have the precedency. The second state consists of four Arch-Bishops, as Magdeburg, Salsburgh …
With rule
The three states of the Empire are, 1. That of the aforesaid Electors, wherein the EcclesiasticksEcclesiastics have the precedency. The second state consists of four Arch-Bishops, as Magdeburg, Salsburgh …
Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is nothing of greater moment, then to provide that the Order and Frame of EcclesiasticksEcclesiastics have not a tendency to make the superior Clergy proud and covetous, and the …
With rule
… is nothing of greater moment, then to provide that the Order and Frame of EcclesiasticksEcclesiastics have not a tendency to make the superior Clergy proud and covetous, and the …
John Corbet · The Interest of England in the Matter of Religion · p. 263 · Open in the reader
Printed
… curas pervenerint tanquam ſine cura victuri, honori totùm dati, ſanitati nihil. Who as thoſe EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics in Barnards time purſue their own preferment, not the peoples well fare.
With rule
… curas pervenerint tanquam ſine cura victuri, honori totùm dati, ſanitati nihil. Who as thoſe EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics in Barnards time purſue their own preferment, not the peoples well fare.
John Fathers · The Content of a Wayfaring Man · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Apoſtle Peter his having a wife; and I have been told, that EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics wives take on them, and off from their husbands, the cares of the Houſhold …
With rule
… of the Apoſtle Peter his having a wife; and I have been told, that EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics wives take on them, and off from their husbands, the cares of the Houſhold …
Thomas Hodges · Marriage with a Defense of the 32nd Article of the Church of England · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them out of their offices; but the Canon concludeth nothing againſt any one, but EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics, eſpecially Beneficed Preachers; which, whether it may more incline ſuch to love, or feare …
With rule
… them out of their offices; but the Canon concludeth nothing againſt any one, but EccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics, eſpecially Beneficed Preachers; which, whether it may more incline ſuch to love, or feare …
John Ley · Defense Doubts Hopes and Reasons for Refusal of the Oath Imposed · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
IV. NO marvel Religion is out of Tune, when a Harmony in EcclesiasticksEcclesiastics is wanting; or that Christianity bears so faint a Sound, when common Morality is …
With rule
IV. NO marvel Religion is out of Tune, when a Harmony in EcclesiasticksEcclesiastics is wanting; or that Christianity bears so faint a Sound, when common Morality is …
Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Divine Meditation · p. 65 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Historical Vindication Part 2 A91269

Printed
… ALL W…THOƲT ORDER; ſo that they are not worthy to be called religious, eccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics catholicks, nor temporal mechannical chriſtians; but rather Machiavillians, Athieſts, Apoſtates; their courſe of life …
With rule
… ALL W…THOƲT ORDER; ſo that they are not worthy to be called religious, eccleſiaſticksEcclesiastics catholicks, nor temporal mechannical chriſtians; but rather Machiavillians, Athieſts, Apoſtates; their courſe of life …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 2 · Open in the reader