Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50239 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

belgickBelgic

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

Puritas changed it: 280 times in 149 works
Consistency: 98.9% (280 of 283)
Reach if approved: ~297 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: belgic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 283 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (280 changes in 149 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 280)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… holy dayes, that he was flandered of intention to abolish the Lords day. The BelgickBelgic Kirks in their Synod holden at Dost anno 1578. wished, that onely the Lords day …
With rule
… holy dayes, that he was flandered of intention to abolish the Lords day. The BelgickBelgic Kirks in their Synod holden at Dost anno 1578. wished, that onely the Lords day …
David Calderwood · Perth Assembly · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Laws and Rules, without receding from their own publick Confessions? Could the French, and BelgickBelgic Churches assent to the Ius divinum of Episcopacy? could they own it, as evident …
With rule
… Laws and Rules, without receding from their own publick Confessions? Could the French, and BelgickBelgic Churches assent to the Ius divinum of Episcopacy? could they own it, as evident …
Vincent Alsop · Reply to the Dean of St Pauls Reflections on the Rector of Sutton · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… take the verſe by it ſelf, then the ſenſe may be this, as the BelgickBelgic Interpreters tranſlate it (of whom, he, if I miſtake not, was one) to eat …
With rule
… take the verſe by it ſelf, then the ſenſe may be this, as the BelgickBelgic Interpreters tranſlate it (of whom, he, if I miſtake not, was one) to eat …
Simon Patrick · The Book of Proverbs Paraphrased · p. 427 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Kings rest was not yet come: A strange apparition proceeds from the BelgickBelgic shore unto the Coast of Norway, Christian the deposed King of Denmark, now long …
With rule
… of the Kings rest was not yet come: A strange apparition proceeds from the BelgickBelgic shore unto the Coast of Norway, Christian the deposed King of Denmark, now long …
Samuel Clarke · A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines · p. 387 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is alſo manifeſt out of the Confeſſions of Faith of the BelgickBelgic Churches, eſteeming themſelves the true and immediate Succeſſors of the Waldenſes; recorded at large …
With rule
It is alſo manifeſt out of the Confeſſions of Faith of the BelgickBelgic Churches, eſteeming themſelves the true and immediate Succeſſors of the Waldenſes; recorded at large …
Henry Danvers · Laying on of Hands · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
…N reading the Roman, (whilst under Consulls) … BelgickBelgic Historie of the …nited Provinces, I re…ember not any ca…itall offender being …
With rule
…N reading the Roman, (whilst under Consulls) … BelgickBelgic Historie of the …nited Provinces, I re…ember not any ca…itall offender being …
Thomas Fuller · Good Thoughts in Worse Times · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by that Regiment or Discipline, which our Lord Iesus Christ hath established. …n the BelgickBelgic Confession, I find words to the same purpose▪ We beleeve, say they, That this …
With rule
… by that Regiment or Discipline, which our Lord Iesus Christ hath established. …n the BelgickBelgic Confession, I find words to the same purpose▪ We beleeve, say they, That this …
George Gillespie · Dialogue Between a Civilian and a Divine Concerning the Church of England · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
As when a youth, bound for the BelgickBelgic warre,
With rule
As when a youth, bound for the BelgickBelgic warre,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 149 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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