Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #14687 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

magickmagic

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 779 times in 262 works
Consistency: 100% (779 of 779)
Reach if approved: ~819 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: magic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 779 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (779 changes in 262 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 779)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
15 That the Apo…ryphal books (which have in them errours, vntruths, Blasphemy, magickmagic, and contradiction to the Canonicall Scriptures) may be vsed in the publik worship of …
With rule
15 That the Apo…ryphal books (which have in them errours, vntruths, Blasphemy, magickmagic, and contradiction to the Canonicall Scriptures) may be vsed in the publik worship of …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… breach of all the 10. commandements. 1. To feare God by mens doctrines. 2. To worſhip images. 3. MagickMagic & coniuring. 4. idol-ſeruice. 5. Treaſon againſt Chriſtian Princes. 6. Aſſoyles for murtherers. 7. Stewes, and reſtraint of …
With rule
… breach of all the 10. commandements. 1. To feare God by mens doctrines. 2. To worſhip images. 3. MagickMagic & coniuring. 4. idol-ſeruice. 5. Treaſon againſt Chriſtian Princes. 6. Aſſoyles for murtherers. 7. Stewes, and reſtraint of …
Richard Bernard · Joshuas Godly Resolution · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from those plagues that were in Egypt, (especially since their study was in Art MagickMagic from their infancie) yea why did they crie out The finger of God is …
With rule
… from those plagues that were in Egypt, (especially since their study was in Art MagickMagic from their infancie) yea why did they crie out The finger of God is …
Henry Smith · Gods Arrow Against Atheists · Open in the reader
Printed
Theſe goodly diuiners forſooth doe likewiſe brag that they vnderſtand the arte MagickMagic, wherein the Egyptians were very skilfull: but thereunto they alſo adde things that are …
With rule
Theſe goodly diuiners forſooth doe likewiſe brag that they vnderſtand the arte MagickMagic, wherein the Egyptians were very skilfull: but thereunto they alſo adde things that are …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… displeased Deities into their forsaken Images; I wish they would also try some holy magickmagic to bring back somewhat of the primitive divine spirit, to animate this now liveless …
With rule
… displeased Deities into their forsaken Images; I wish they would also try some holy magickmagic to bring back somewhat of the primitive divine spirit, to animate this now liveless …
Richard Allestree · The Gentlemans Calling · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… If their lives be tragical, their deaths are ſeldome comicall. Zoroaſtes the inventer of MagickMagic (as ſome Hiſtorians affirm of him) laught at his birth, but dyed a wofull …
With rule
… If their lives be tragical, their deaths are ſeldome comicall. Zoroaſtes the inventer of MagickMagic (as ſome Hiſtorians affirm of him) laught at his birth, but dyed a wofull …
John Beadle · Diary of a Thankful Christian · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… only the 5. books of Moſes: They were exceedingly given, and generally addicted unto ſorcery, magickmagic, and witch-craft, in which they grew more and more notorious till Chriſts time …
With rule
… only the 5. books of Moſes: They were exceedingly given, and generally addicted unto ſorcery, magickmagic, and witch-craft, in which they grew more and more notorious till Chriſts time …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Irenicum to the Lover of Truth and Peace · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. Witchcraft or MagickMagic, which is that sin whereby men renounce the true God: and betake themselves to …
With rule
3. Witchcraft or MagickMagic, which is that sin whereby men renounce the true God: and betake themselves to …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Divinity · p. 151 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

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