Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50429 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ptolomePtolemy

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

Puritas changed it: 149 times in 16 works
Consistency: 100% (149 of 149)
Reach if approved: ~157 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ptolemy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 149 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (149 changes in 16 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 149)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… are unequall to two right angles; By the same argument may he say (saith PtolomePtolemy in Proclus) That on each side they be both greater than two right angles …
With rule
… are unequall to two right angles; By the same argument may he say (saith PtolomePtolemy in Proclus) That on each side they be both greater than two right angles …
Petrus Ramus · The Way to Geometry · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in deede is of greater efficacie, as the ſame authour reporteth:) as contrariwiſe, when PtolomePtolemy king of Aegypt, ſayth Iuſtine, was giuen to pleaſure & wantonneſſe, all his ſubiects preſently …
With rule
… in deede is of greater efficacie, as the ſame authour reporteth:) as contrariwiſe, when PtolomePtolemy king of Aegypt, ſayth Iuſtine, was giuen to pleaſure & wantonneſſe, all his ſubiects preſently …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 369 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Aegypt, as Hierosol. or the inhabitants of Arabia Petrea, but the Pharusians rather, as PtolomePtolemy and Pliny call them: a people inhabiting the middle part of Aegypt: whereof Isay …
With rule
… Aegypt, as Hierosol. or the inhabitants of Arabia Petrea, but the Pharusians rather, as PtolomePtolemy and Pliny call them: a people inhabiting the middle part of Aegypt: whereof Isay …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whom Lyranus, Hugo Card. Pintus follow, vnderstand this to be PtolomePtolemy Philadelphus, who succeeded PtolomePtolemy Lagi, and grew to be mightier then he: he had 200. thousand footmen, and 20. thousand …
With rule
… whom Lyranus, Hugo Card. Pintus follow, vnderstand this to be PtolomePtolemy Philadelphus, who succeeded PtolomePtolemy Lagi, and grew to be mightier then he: he had 200. thousand footmen, and 20. thousand …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 406 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sayth that in all his aunswer, he hath vsed great modestie. Much like to PtolomePtolemy, one of the Kings of Egypt, that when he had killed his Father, and …
With rule
… sayth that in all his aunswer, he hath vsed great modestie. Much like to PtolomePtolemy, one of the Kings of Egypt, that when he had killed his Father, and …
Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… very odious and abominable (as wee said before) yet among them there was one PtolomePtolemy, who to bereave his sister Arsinoe of her Kingdome, stained himselfe with this villanous …
With rule
… very odious and abominable (as wee said before) yet among them there was one PtolomePtolemy, who to bereave his sister Arsinoe of her Kingdome, stained himselfe with this villanous …
Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for [above] one inſtance will ſuffice in the Epiſtle of Eleazar the Highprieſt to PtolomePtolemy, telling him by way of great acknowledgement, and gratitude. foreign, All things that are profitable …
With rule
… for [above] one inſtance will ſuffice in the Epiſtle of Eleazar the Highprieſt to PtolomePtolemy, telling him by way of great acknowledgement, and gratitude. foreign, All things that are profitable …
Henry Hammond · Review of the Paraphrase of the New Testament · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, and the Scriptures, when you ſee the Prophecies ſo punctually fullfilled; for if PtolomePtolemy was aſtoniſhed at the 72 Interpreters, becauſe being placed in ſundry Roomes, and never conferring …
With rule
… God, and the Scriptures, when you ſee the Prophecies ſo punctually fullfilled; for if PtolomePtolemy was aſtoniſhed at the 72 Interpreters, becauſe being placed in ſundry Roomes, and never conferring …
Robert Dingley · A Sincere Believer Comforted and Encouraged · p. 176 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.