Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50384 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

zodiackZodiac

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

Puritas changed it: 171 times in 98 works
Consistency: 97.7% (171 of 175)
Reach if approved: ~184 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: zodiac
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 175 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (171 changes in 98 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 171)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… corruption of things to the Oblique motion of the Sun and Planets, in the ZodiackZodiac: So the preſervation and continuance of Faith and Holineſs in the Churches of God …
With rule
… corruption of things to the Oblique motion of the Sun and Planets, in the ZodiackZodiac: So the preſervation and continuance of Faith and Holineſs in the Churches of God …
Anthony Burgess · The Scripture Directory for Church Officers and People · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Dial, with figures for twelve houres, or perchance the twelve signes of the ZodiackZodiac thereupon. But carnall men conceive, they may safely steale Gods dove, and stick down …
With rule
… a Dial, with figures for twelve houres, or perchance the twelve signes of the ZodiackZodiac thereupon. But carnall men conceive, they may safely steale Gods dove, and stick down …
Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 400 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that by Mazzaroth is meant the planets, and others the twelve ſigns in the ZodiackZodiac, (as is expreſſed in the margin of our Bibles;) yet I rather conceive, with …
With rule
… that by Mazzaroth is meant the planets, and others the twelve ſigns in the ZodiackZodiac, (as is expreſſed in the margin of our Bibles;) yet I rather conceive, with …
Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Moon: The twelve Precious Stones in the Ephod, the twelve Signs in the ZodiackZodiac: The Mitre, the Empyrean Heavens: The Golden Plate, God the King of all.
With rule
… the Moon: The twelve Precious Stones in the Ephod, the twelve Signs in the ZodiackZodiac: The Mitre, the Empyrean Heavens: The Golden Plate, God the King of all.
Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · p. 651 · Open in the reader
Printed
91. The Christian ZodiackZodiac.
With rule
91. The Christian ZodiackZodiac.
John Owen · Latin Epigrams Englished · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
From the twelve signs of the ZodiackZodiac, it might come to the Chaldeans, thence (or from the Iews) to the Egyptians …
With rule
From the twelve signs of the ZodiackZodiac, it might come to the Chaldeans, thence (or from the Iews) to the Egyptians …
John Sadler · Rights of the Kingdom · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… members of the body, which the Aſtrologians aſſigne to the twelue ſignes of the ZodiackZodiac. For S. Ottilius gouernes the head, S. Catherine guardeth the tongue, S. Apollonia cureth …
With rule
… members of the body, which the Aſtrologians aſſigne to the twelue ſignes of the ZodiackZodiac. For S. Ottilius gouernes the head, S. Catherine guardeth the tongue, S. Apollonia cureth …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for ever with the sweetness of his Presence; this is that Coelestial Sphere, whose ZodiackZodiac is Felicity, whose Constellations are degrees of Glory, and whose Poles, are Joy and …
With rule
… for ever with the sweetness of his Presence; this is that Coelestial Sphere, whose ZodiackZodiac is Felicity, whose Constellations are degrees of Glory, and whose Poles, are Joy and …
Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Mourning and Preparing Ourselves for Death · p. 123 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 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.

The Practical Sabbatarian A65408

Printed
… generall, thus meditation like the Sun, may run through all the ſigns of the zodiackZodiac, and fly from one ſpiritual object to another, from the God of the Sabbath …
With rule
… generall, thus meditation like the Sun, may run through all the ſigns of the zodiackZodiac, and fly from one ſpiritual object to another, from the God of the Sabbath …
John Wells · The Practical Sabbatarian · p. 238 · Open in the reader