Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #21826 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

olympiadeolympiad

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 337 times in 17 works
Consistency: 94.6% (337 of 356)
Reach if approved: ~374 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: olympiad
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 356 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (337 changes in 17 works, 94.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 337)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… with monies, to hire him auxiliaries from other parts, [Diodor. ut sup. and an. 3. OlympiadeOlympiad 98.]
With rule
… with monies, to hire him auxiliaries from other parts, [Diodor. ut sup. and an. 3. OlympiadeOlympiad 98.]
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Idolatry and Superſtition, who began to reign about the third year of the ſixteenth OlympiadeOlympiad, ſaith Plutarch. The Arabians and the Aegyptians began their year with the Vernall Equinoctiall …
With rule
… Idolatry and Superſtition, who began to reign about the third year of the ſixteenth OlympiadeOlympiad, ſaith Plutarch. The Arabians and the Aegyptians began their year with the Vernall Equinoctiall …
Thomas Mocket · Christmas the Christians Grand Feast · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all Chronaclers, noteth that in the fourth yéere of the two hundred and tenth OlympiadeOlympiad, there was the greatest Eclips of the Sunne that euer was seene, and therewithall …
With rule
… all Chronaclers, noteth that in the fourth yéere of the two hundred and tenth OlympiadeOlympiad, there was the greatest Eclips of the Sunne that euer was seene, and therewithall …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 632 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Xerxes passage into Greece followeth in the 75. OlympiadeOlympiad, and Plato his death in the 108 OlympiadeOlympiad: by this it is evident, that Zoroastres was neither so many yeeres before the …
With rule
… Xerxes passage into Greece followeth in the 75. OlympiadeOlympiad, and Plato his death in the 108 OlympiadeOlympiad: by this it is evident, that Zoroastres was neither so many yeeres before the …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… convict. This Thales is ſaid by ſome to be borne in the thirty fift OlympiadeOlympiad, and to floriſh in the ſeaventh: that is about 120. yeres afore he was born …
With rule
… convict. This Thales is ſaid by ſome to be borne in the thirty fift OlympiadeOlympiad, and to floriſh in the ſeaventh: that is about 120. yeres afore he was born …
Hugh Broughton · An Advertisement of Corruption in our Handling of Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… ganet, after 4 Y. ended vſed in Olympia: there are to be placed: yf in OlympiadeOlympiad 202 the fourth Y. our L. died. But P…utarch in Numa ſayth truly, that …
With rule
… ganet, after 4 Y. ended vſed in Olympia: there are to be placed: yf in OlympiadeOlympiad 202 the fourth Y. our L. died. But P…utarch in Numa ſayth truly, that …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… more will well reach to Chilon his office, to caſt it into the ſixt OlympiadeOlympiad. Any one would bee aweary to reckon the diverſities which be of Olympiades in …
With rule
… more will well reach to Chilon his office, to caſt it into the ſixt OlympiadeOlympiad. Any one would bee aweary to reckon the diverſities which be of Olympiades in …
Hugh Broughton · Grounds of Divinity Study · Open in the reader
Printed
Eusebius in his Chronicle vpon the 117 OlympiadeOlympiad, saith, The Hebrew history of the Machabees reckens from hence the reigne of the …
With rule
Eusebius in his Chronicle vpon the 117 OlympiadeOlympiad, saith, The Hebrew history of the Machabees reckens from hence the reigne of the …
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Buckler of the Faith · p. 13 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

19 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 are listed here. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Annals of the World A64619

Printed
From the summer of this year 3228, Year of the World 3228. c. begins the first olympiadeolympiad of the Greek Chronologers, reign of the King of Juda 35 wherein Choraebus of Elis …
With rule
From the summer of this year 3228, Year of the World 3228. c. begins the first olympiadeolympiad of the Greek Chronologers, reign of the King of Juda 35 wherein Choraebus of Elis …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Cyrus his reign, which as he supposes, falls in with the beginning of the 55 olympiadeolympiad, and consequently with the midst of the year, 4154. of the Julian Period: it followes …
With rule
… Cyrus his reign, which as he supposes, falls in with the beginning of the 55 olympiadeolympiad, and consequently with the midst of the year, 4154. of the Julian Period: it followes …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Milesian, who foretold the Eclipse of the Sun, in the 4 year of the 48 olympiadeolympiad, which was in the reign of Alyattes, (for so the old copy reads it …
With rule
… the Milesian, who foretold the Eclipse of the Sun, in the 4 year of the 48 olympiadeolympiad, which was in the reign of Alyattes, (for so the old copy reads it …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he died: which, as he there saith, was in the third year of the 52 olympiadeolympiad: and which upon a due account I chuse rather to place in the 3 year …
With rule
… he died: which, as he there saith, was in the third year of the 52 olympiadeolympiad: and which upon a due account I chuse rather to place in the 3 year …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the latter end thereof, in the beginning of the first year of the 48 olympiadeolympiad, in the 160 year, running of Nabonasars account, 424 years, 3 moneths and 8 dayes, from the time …
With rule
… in the latter end thereof, in the beginning of the first year of the 48 olympiadeolympiad, in the 160 year, running of Nabonasars account, 424 years, 3 moneths and 8 dayes, from the time …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 91 · Open in the reader