Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50230 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chirurgionSurgeon

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

Puritas changed it: 294 times in 211 works
Consistency: 96.3% (294 of 305)
Reach if approved: ~326 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: chirurgeon
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 310 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (294 changes in 211 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 294)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… our hatred to the Sinne, than a voluntary patience under the hand of a ChirurgionSurgeon can prove, either that we delight in our owne paine, o… Abhorre our owne …
With rule
… our hatred to the Sinne, than a voluntary patience under the hand of a ChirurgionSurgeon can prove, either that we delight in our owne paine, o… Abhorre our owne …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our ſicke and wounded ſoules? but hee is ſo pittifull and tender hearted a ChirurgionSurgeon, that he will pull off the rotten ragges of our ſinnes, and lap them …
With rule
… our ſicke and wounded ſoules? but hee is ſo pittifull and tender hearted a ChirurgionSurgeon, that he will pull off the rotten ragges of our ſinnes, and lap them …
Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their terrour, have withstood their salvation, &c. Even as an impatient Patient gets the ChirurgionSurgeon to pull out the Tent and Corrosive, or p…ls it off himselfe as …
With rule
… their terrour, have withstood their salvation, &c. Even as an impatient Patient gets the ChirurgionSurgeon to pull out the Tent and Corrosive, or p…ls it off himselfe as …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 253 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the vlcers of a ſhamefaſt Patient, which dareth not ſhew his maladie to the ChirurgionSurgeon, doe feſter and rankle and encreaſe euen to the deſtruction of the vvhole bodie …
With rule
… the vlcers of a ſhamefaſt Patient, which dareth not ſhew his maladie to the ChirurgionSurgeon, doe feſter and rankle and encreaſe euen to the deſtruction of the vvhole bodie …
John Craig · The Mother and the Child · Open in the reader
Printed
… heart, and bindeth up their wounds; it is ſpoken after the manner of a ChirurgionSurgeon, he had a tender heart towards all broken hearts; he endeavoured to put all …
With rule
… heart, and bindeth up their wounds; it is ſpoken after the manner of a ChirurgionSurgeon, he had a tender heart towards all broken hearts; he endeavoured to put all …
Isaac Ambrose · Looking Unto Jesus · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him smart for his blasphemyes, slanders, quarrels, whoredomes: and because he is no allowed ChirurgionSurgeon, restraine him from letting bloud. Musle the Wolfe, let him haue his chaine and …
With rule
… him smart for his blasphemyes, slanders, quarrels, whoredomes: and because he is no allowed ChirurgionSurgeon, restraine him from letting bloud. Musle the Wolfe, let him haue his chaine and …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good ingression, is to be sure of a good prosecution. Wee say of the ChirurgionSurgeon, that he should haue a Ladies hand, and a Lyons heart: but the Christian …
With rule
… good ingression, is to be sure of a good prosecution. Wee say of the ChirurgionSurgeon, that he should haue a Ladies hand, and a Lyons heart: but the Christian …
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and repugnant to his naturall appetite, prouiding that they do cure him. And that ChirurgionSurgeon who doth launce him to the effusion of his bloud; yea, who doth cut …
With rule
… and repugnant to his naturall appetite, prouiding that they do cure him. And that ChirurgionSurgeon who doth launce him to the effusion of his bloud; yea, who doth cut …
David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 188 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Holy State A40674

Printed
… common observation, and to shew that nothing is past cure with so great a chirurgionSurgeon, who can even set a broken Favourite.
With rule
… common observation, and to shew that nothing is past cure with so great a chirurgionSurgeon, who can even set a broken Favourite.
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 244 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Minor Prophets A63068

Printed
… and cut off every mothers child that doth this, (niſi currat poenitentia) as a chirurgionSurgeon cutteth off a rotten member, ſo will God deſtroy ſuch for ever: he will …
With rule
… and cut off every mothers child that doth this, (niſi currat poenitentia) as a chirurgionSurgeon cutteth off a rotten member, ſo will God deſtroy ſuch for ever: he will …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 648 · Open in the reader

The Healing of Israels Breaches A77502

Printed
… the Cure the more hopefull, becauſe the part is ſenſible: In which regard the chirurgionSurgeon is not diſcouraged by it, nor yet ſorry for it, though his Patient be …
With rule
… the Cure the more hopefull, becauſe the part is ſenſible: In which regard the chirurgionSurgeon is not diſcouraged by it, nor yet ſorry for it, though his Patient be …
John Brinsley · The Healing of Israels Breaches · p. 48 · Open in the reader