Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50401 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics

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

Puritas changed it: 168 times in 106 works
Consistency: 95.4% (168 of 176)
Reach if approved: ~185 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hieroglyphics
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 176 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (168 changes in 106 works, 95.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 168)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Engrossments and Enclosure of the Sciences (which this layes open.) What were the HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, and Imagery Resemblances of Egypt, and Ancient Greece, but to captive the People under …
With rule
… the Engrossments and Enclosure of the Sciences (which this layes open.) What were the HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, and Imagery Resemblances of Egypt, and Ancient Greece, but to captive the People under …
Henry Ainsworth · The Art of Logic · Open in the reader
Printed
… have two workmen chiefe about the Ark, 1 Bezaliel. 2 Aholiab. Exod. 31.2, 6. The Egyptians in Pierius HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics expreſſed the unprofitableneſs of a ſolitary man by one milſtone which alone grindeth no …
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… have two workmen chiefe about the Ark, 1 Bezaliel. 2 Aholiab. Exod. 31.2, 6. The Egyptians in Pierius HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics expreſſed the unprofitableneſs of a ſolitary man by one milſtone which alone grindeth no …
John Cotton · A Brief Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… under her all-commanding Canopy, Casting the Nativityes of your Estates in strange Aegyptian HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics and Trithemian Characters; And finds by the Horoscope of the Board, and frequent Ill …
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… under her all-commanding Canopy, Casting the Nativityes of your Estates in strange Aegyptian HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics and Trithemian Characters; And finds by the Horoscope of the Board, and frequent Ill …
John Earle · The Character of a Tavern · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… love, like ſweet ſmelling myrrhe is very ſweet and piercing. The Antients in their HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics painted Love with a Gate or Window in his Stomack, wherein were written theſe …
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… love, like ſweet ſmelling myrrhe is very ſweet and piercing. The Antients in their HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics painted Love with a Gate or Window in his Stomack, wherein were written theſe …
William Gearing · The Love-Sick Spouse · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being thus conſtantly held out in a doctrinall and ſignificative tenour, as viſions and HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics are, they are to be expounded to ſuch a doctrinall and figurative ſenſe, and …
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… being thus conſtantly held out in a doctrinall and ſignificative tenour, as viſions and HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics are, they are to be expounded to ſuch a doctrinall and figurative ſenſe, and …
John Lightfoot · The Temple in the Days of our Savior Described · p. 253 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to guide him, in their Oriental Schemes and Figurative expressions, as likewise in their HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, not forgetting to enquire also into the Oneirocriticks of the Ancients. Which he did …
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… to guide him, in their Oriental Schemes and Figurative expressions, as likewise in their HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, not forgetting to enquire also into the Oneirocriticks of the Ancients. Which he did …
Joseph Mede · Works · p. VI · Open in the reader
Printed
… he placed in Dan and Bethel, and built Altars, and ſacrificed to them, were HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics or ſymbolical repreſentations of the true God, and not the Images of falſe Gods …
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… he placed in Dan and Bethel, and built Altars, and ſacrificed to them, were HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics or ſymbolical repreſentations of the true God, and not the Images of falſe Gods …
Thankful Owen · A True and Lively Representation of Popery · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… think that if it were written, that it was decyphered onely in their obscure HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, but that some of it came to ordinary writing of familiar letters
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… think that if it were written, that it was decyphered onely in their obscure HieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, but that some of it came to ordinary writing of familiar letters
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 102 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

8 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 Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture A00593

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… of Philoſophers, all the apophthegmes of Sages, all the emblemes of Poets, all the hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics of Egyptian Prieſts, all the tables of Lawes, all the pandects of Conſtitutions, all …
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… of Philoſophers, all the apophthegmes of Sages, all the emblemes of Poets, all the hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics of Egyptian Prieſts, all the tables of Lawes, all the pandects of Conſtitutions, all …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 240 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Moral Law A14909

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… led them to this idolatrie, was their boldneſſe to repreſent god myſtically by their hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, repreſenting him as they pleaſed. In Thebe a towne of Egypt (as Plutarch maketh …
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… led them to this idolatrie, was their boldneſſe to repreſent god myſtically by their hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, repreſenting him as they pleaſed. In Thebe a towne of Egypt (as Plutarch maketh …
John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 109 · Open in the reader

Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Spirits Divinations A42501

Printed
Orus Apollo ſaith in his hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, Dawes, that are twins ſignifie marriage: becauſe this animal brings forth two eggs, out …
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Orus Apollo ſaith in his hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, Dawes, that are twins ſignifie marriage: becauſe this animal brings forth two eggs, out …
John Gaule · Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Spirits Divinations · p. 310 · Open in the reader

The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled A42502

Printed
… old, and new) have alwaies uſed the ſame names, figures, characters, inſtruments, calculations, computations, hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, houſes, ſuppoſitions, ſignifications, diſtinctions, order, &c. And wherefore were they altered? and with what …
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… old, and new) have alwaies uſed the ſame names, figures, characters, inſtruments, calculations, computations, hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, houſes, ſuppoſitions, ſignifications, diſtinctions, order, &c. And wherefore were they altered? and with what …
John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… arrant magick and aſtrologie) not only of prime-materiall non-entities, aenigmaticall oracles, obſtruſe hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, chimicall and chimericall ſperm and chaos, preternaturall mirables, occult antipathies, impertinent curioſities, diabolicall injections …
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… arrant magick and aſtrologie) not only of prime-materiall non-entities, aenigmaticall oracles, obſtruſe hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, chimicall and chimericall ſperm and chaos, preternaturall mirables, occult antipathies, impertinent curioſities, diabolicall injections …
John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · Open in the reader
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… leſſe regarded, and eſteemed in aſtrological judgement. 79. About the reading of the Stars, by hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, characters, letters, ſyllables, words, ſentences, aſpects, conjunctions, conſtellations, oppoſitions, configurations, reſemblances, &c. 80. About the …
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… leſſe regarded, and eſteemed in aſtrological judgement. 79. About the reading of the Stars, by hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, characters, letters, ſyllables, words, ſentences, aſpects, conjunctions, conſtellations, oppoſitions, configurations, reſemblances, &c. 80. About the …
John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
Orus Apollo ſaith in his hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, Dawes, that are twins ſignifie marriage: becauſe this animal brings forth two eggs, out …
With rule
Orus Apollo ſaith in his hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics, Dawes, that are twins ſignifie marriage: becauſe this animal brings forth two eggs, out …
John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 310 · Open in the reader

The True Evangelical Temper A70378

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… Gospell, our tables with meate. Lastly, they are such beasts, as are emblemes and hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics of Christian vertues, and graces, and whereunto man may bee set to schoole, to …
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… Gospell, our tables with meate. Lastly, they are such beasts, as are emblemes and hieroglyphicksHieroglyphics of Christian vertues, and graces, and whereunto man may bee set to schoole, to …
John Jackson · The True Evangelical Temper · p. 88 · Open in the reader