Rules
All candidates
Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #49947 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

schismaticksSchismatics

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

Puritas changed it
2,621 times in 678 works
Consistency
99.9% (2,621 of 2,623)
Reach if approved
~2,758 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: schismatics
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,625 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,621 changes in 678 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,621)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be more manifest? when they say that the Scriptures are the refuge of all SchismaticksSchismatics and Hereticks as much as if they should say, …he good Lawes and Statuts …
    With rule
    … be more manifest? when they say that the Scriptures are the refuge of all SchismaticksSchismatics and Hereticks as much as if they should say, …he good Lawes and Statuts …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … vvhether that becauſe the thinges in controuerſie are called external, we may be called ſchiſmaticksSchismatics. Saint Paul (mee thinketh) doeth helpe vs in this caſe, vvhere hee ſaith: I …
    With rule
    … vvhether that becauſe the thinges in controuerſie are called external, we may be called ſchiſmaticksSchismatics. Saint Paul (mee thinketh) doeth helpe vs in this caſe, vvhere hee ſaith: I …

    Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … seuered our selues from the Church of Rome vpon iust cause: neither are we schismaticksSchismatics in so doing, but they rather; because the groūd & the proper cause of the …
    With rule
    … seuered our selues from the Church of Rome vpon iust cause: neither are we schismaticksSchismatics in so doing, but they rather; because the groūd & the proper cause of the …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 497 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … would judg you out of your owne mouths: that whereas you account vs Browniſts, SchiſmaticksSchismatics, Heretiques, Traytors, &c. you may hereby perceave your wicked ſlaunders, that thus intitle vs …
    With rule
    … would judg you out of your owne mouths: that whereas you account vs Browniſts, SchiſmaticksSchismatics, Heretiques, Traytors, &c. you may hereby perceave your wicked ſlaunders, that thus intitle vs …

    John Smyth · Parallels Censures · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Now to come vnto the schismaticksSchismatics of our church. We may say to them, nay the Church of Englande thus …
    With rule
    Now to come vnto the schismaticksSchismatics of our church. We may say to them, nay the Church of Englande thus …

    Andrew Willet · Sermon on Zechariah 5 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … bread and in Prayer. Theſe notes will torment all our Adverſaries; Papiſts with Doctrine, SchiſmaticksSchismatics with the Apoſtles Fellowſhip, and both in breaking of bread, the one, becauſe they …
    With rule
    … bread and in Prayer. Theſe notes will torment all our Adverſaries; Papiſts with Doctrine, SchiſmaticksSchismatics with the Apoſtles Fellowſhip, and both in breaking of bread, the one, becauſe they …

    John Yates · The Honor of Gods House · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … such matters as principally concerne the whole Bodie they write vnto: Howsoeuer therefore Hereticks, SchismaticksSchismatics, Persons excommunicated, and Infidels, may reap some fruit and profit by the due reading …
    With rule
    … such matters as principally concerne the whole Bodie they write vnto: Howsoeuer therefore Hereticks, SchismaticksSchismatics, Persons excommunicated, and Infidels, may reap some fruit and profit by the due reading …

    William Bradshaw · A Plain and Pithy Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … will prove and make it manifeſt that indeed him ſelfe and his conſortes are SchiſmaticksSchismatics, ſeeing he and they deny thoſe foreſaid fundamentall grounds of faith, for which only …
    With rule
    … will prove and make it manifeſt that indeed him ſelfe and his conſortes are SchiſmaticksSchismatics, ſeeing he and they deny thoſe foreſaid fundamentall grounds of faith, for which only …

    Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 137 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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

A Search for the English Schismatic A27030

  • Printed
    … here, the Canoneer Dioceſan Conformiſts, and the Preſent meer Conformiſts, which are the ENGLISH SCHISMATICKSSCHISMATICS.
    With rule
    … here, the Canoneer Dioceſan Conformiſts, and the Preſent meer Conformiſts, which are the ENGLISH SCHISMATICKSSCHISMATICS.

    Richard Baxter · A Search for the English Schismatic · p. 6 · Open in the reader

A Scripture Looking Glass A95899

  • Printed
    Speculum Scripturale Schiſmaticorum: OR, A SCRIPTURE LOOKING—GLASSE, MOST EXACTLY CHARACTERIZING ALL SORTS OF SCHISMATICKSSCHISMATICS: Wherein,
    With rule
    Speculum Scripturale Schiſmaticorum: OR, A SCRIPTURE LOOKING—GLASSE, MOST EXACTLY CHARACTERIZING ALL SORTS OF SCHISMATICKSSCHISMATICS: Wherein,

    John Vicars · A Scripture Looking Glass · Open in the reader