Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10953 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

physicionsPhysicians

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

Puritas changed it: 69 times in 34 works
Consistency: 95.8% (69 of 72)
Reach if approved: ~76 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: physicians
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 72 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (69 changes in 34 works, 95.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 69)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… away, at another to his Wife, ô foliſh woman: & to his friendes, ô ye PhyſicionsPhysicians of no valu. But euer reſolutly that euen in death he knew that he …
With rule
… away, at another to his Wife, ô foliſh woman: & to his friendes, ô ye PhyſicionsPhysicians of no valu. But euer reſolutly that euen in death he knew that he …
John Prime · The Consolations of David Applied to Queen Elizabeth · Open in the reader
Printed
… men in this case, saith a worthy Diuine, as it deales with Witches and PhysicionsPhysicians; the Witch, though shee faile in twenty things, yet if she doe some one …
With rule
… men in this case, saith a worthy Diuine, as it deales with Witches and PhysicionsPhysicians; the Witch, though shee faile in twenty things, yet if she doe some one …
Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 285 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by one? why doe the Doctors of the ciuil law, and (ſometyme alſo) the PhyſicionsPhysicians: wear the ſame attire? finally, wherefore are not the papiſtes, driuē to the puttīg …
With rule
… by one? why doe the Doctors of the ciuil law, and (ſometyme alſo) the PhyſicionsPhysicians: wear the ſame attire? finally, wherefore are not the papiſtes, driuē to the puttīg …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · p. 251 · Open in the reader
Printed
8. The Bishops, and all the National Clergy are Subjects to the Soveraign, as PhysicionsPhysicians and Philosophers &c. are. And he is Governour over them in matters of Religion …
With rule
8. The Bishops, and all the National Clergy are Subjects to the Soveraign, as PhysicionsPhysicians and Philosophers &c. are. And he is Governour over them in matters of Religion …
Richard Baxter · Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction · p. 544 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the beſt and wiſeſt, in the matters of their own profeſſion? If all the PhyſicionsPhysicians in the countrey ſhould tell thee, that thou haſt a diſeaſe that will certainly …
With rule
… the beſt and wiſeſt, in the matters of their own profeſſion? If all the PhyſicionsPhysicians in the countrey ſhould tell thee, that thou haſt a diſeaſe that will certainly …
Richard Baxter · The Mischiefs of Self-Ignorance · p. 435 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Miniſters no more hindred by Magiſtrates in the exerciſe of their office, then PhyſicionsPhysicians and Schoolmaſters are in theirs; ſeeing it is but a Government like theirs, conſiſting …
With rule
… and Miniſters no more hindred by Magiſtrates in the exerciſe of their office, then PhyſicionsPhysicians and Schoolmaſters are in theirs; ſeeing it is but a Government like theirs, conſiſting …
Richard Baxter · A Sermon of Repentance · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Magistrates punishing them, or the Ministers reproof, or crossing them in their sins. As PhysicionsPhysicians are judged of, not so much by the excellency of their remedies, as by …
With rule
… Magistrates punishing them, or the Ministers reproof, or crossing them in their sins. As PhysicionsPhysicians are judged of, not so much by the excellency of their remedies, as by …
Richard Baxter · Right Rejoicing · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as the moſt deſperate practice of al…he reſt, they fal to forging like PhyſicionsPhysicians, that ſeeing their patient in a deſperate caſe, miniſter vnto him deſperate medicines, that …
With rule
… as the moſt deſperate practice of al…he reſt, they fal to forging like PhyſicionsPhysicians, that ſeeing their patient in a deſperate caſe, miniſter vnto him deſperate medicines, that …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 486 · 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.

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 A18080

Printed
… in ſo ſore a ſicknes / and amonges ſo manie partely vnfaithefull / and partely vnſkillfull phyſicionsPhysicians / hathe hetherto kept liffe in yt.
With rule
… in ſo ſore a ſicknes / and amonges ſo manie partely vnfaithefull / and partely vnſkillfull phyſicionsPhysicians / hathe hetherto kept liffe in yt.
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. IIII · Open in the reader

The True Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches A27054

Printed
As the beſt phyſicionsPhysicians are moſt for ſtrengthening nature, which is the true curer of diſeaſes, ſo he …
With rule
As the beſt phyſicionsPhysicians are moſt for ſtrengthening nature, which is the true curer of diſeaſes, ſo he …
Richard Baxter · The True Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches · p. 39 · Open in the reader