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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10956 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

schismatickSchismatic

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

Puritas changed it
689 times in 281 works
Consistency
99.2% (689 of 694)
Reach if approved
~730 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: schismatic
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
695 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (689 changes in 281 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 689)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … truth, muſt continue ſtedfaſt in the Apoſtles doctrine, & he that wil not be a SchiſmatickSchismatic & depart from the Church, muſt keepe himſelfe in the communion of the Apoſtles, that …
    With rule
    … truth, muſt continue ſtedfaſt in the Apoſtles doctrine, & he that wil not be a SchiſmatickSchismatic & depart from the Church, muſt keepe himſelfe in the communion of the Apoſtles, that …

    John Yates · The Honor of Gods House · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and teare one another with the ignominious invectives and uncharitable names of Heretick and SchiſmatickSchismatic, about ceremoniall and problematicall, and indeed but criticall verball controverſies; and in the mean …
    With rule
    … and teare one another with the ignominious invectives and uncharitable names of Heretick and SchiſmatickSchismatic, about ceremoniall and problematicall, and indeed but criticall verball controverſies; and in the mean …

    John Donne · Two Sermons Preached Before King Charles on Genesis 1:26 · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    2. Quaere. If ſo; which faction is it that makes SchiſmatickSchismatic? If the Gallopers, why are they not then declared Schiſmaticks from the preſs and …
    With rule
    2. Quaere. If ſo; which faction is it that makes SchiſmatickSchismatic? If the Gallopers, why are they not then declared Schiſmaticks from the preſs and …

    Vincent Alsop · The Mischief of Impositions · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Lutheran, a Calvinist, a Zwinglian; and elsewhere do but call him a Sectary, a SchismatickSchismatic, a Puritan, a Calvinist, a Nonconformist, an Independant, a Presbyterian, a Round-head, a …
    With rule
    … Lutheran, a Calvinist, a Zwinglian; and elsewhere do but call him a Sectary, a SchismatickSchismatic, a Puritan, a Calvinist, a Nonconformist, an Independant, a Presbyterian, a Round-head, a …

    Richard Baxter · Cain and Abel Malignity · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Let not the brazen SchismatickSchismatic aspire▪
    With rule
    Let not the brazen SchismatickSchismatic aspire▪

    Richard Baxter · A Defense of the Principles of Love · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … but ſuch as ſay as they do, is a down right mark of a SchiſmatickSchismatic. And I know that dividing Principles and Diſpoſitions do tend directly to the ruine …
    With rule
    … but ſuch as ſay as they do, is a down right mark of a SchiſmatickSchismatic. And I know that dividing Principles and Diſpoſitions do tend directly to the ruine …

    Richard Baxter · Last Legacy in Select Admonitions and Directions · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … two hundred years after them (at least) yet worthier of the Name of a SchismatickSchismatic, than the New Lords, that by new Laws do make and call all Schismaticks …
    With rule
    … two hundred years after them (at least) yet worthier of the Name of a SchismatickSchismatic, than the New Lords, that by new Laws do make and call all Schismaticks …

    Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … at all, nor signe of grace in a Papist or any other Heretick or SchismatickSchismatic whatsoever, that they have beene constant in their Religion, even unto death. It is …
    With rule
    … at all, nor signe of grace in a Papist or any other Heretick or SchismatickSchismatic whatsoever, that they have beene constant in their Religion, even unto death. It is …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 766 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Dangerous Schismatic A26909

  • Printed
    THE DANGEROUS SCHISMATICKSCHISMATIC CLEARLY DETECTED, and fully CONFUTED; For the Saving of a Distracted Nation from that …
    With rule
    THE DANGEROUS SCHISMATICKSCHISMATIC CLEARLY DETECTED, and fully CONFUTED; For the Saving of a Distracted Nation from that …

    Richard Baxter · The Dangerous Schismatic · Open in the reader

Schism Detected in Both Extremes A27028

  • Printed
    THE DANGEROUS SCHISMATICKSCHISMATIC CLEARLY DETECTED, and fully CONFUTED; For the Saving of a Diſtracted Nation from that …
    With rule
    THE DANGEROUS SCHISMATICKSCHISMATIC CLEARLY DETECTED, and fully CONFUTED; For the Saving of a Diſtracted Nation from that …

    Richard Baxter · Schism Detected in Both Extremes · Open in the reader

A Search for the English Schismatic A27030

  • Printed
    A SEARCH FOR THE ENGLISH SCHISMATICKSCHISMATIC: OR, The True Characters of the ſeveral Accuſed Parties, by which they may be …
    With rule
    A SEARCH FOR THE ENGLISH SCHISMATICKSCHISMATIC: OR, The True Characters of the ſeveral Accuſed Parties, by which they may be …

    Richard Baxter · A Search for the English Schismatic · p. 1 · Open in the reader