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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50476 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

idaeaIdea

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

Puritas changed it
146 times in 92 works
Consistency
91.2% (146 of 160)
Reach if approved
~168 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: idaea
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
160 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (146 changes in 92 works, 91.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 146)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    In the Lesser Phrygia, (of a Hill therein, called IdaeaIdea; of a Riuer, Xanthe, of the Kings, Troas, Dardania, &C.) stood that eye of …
    With rule
    In the Lesser Phrygia, (of a Hill therein, called IdaeaIdea; of a Riuer, Xanthe, of the Kings, Troas, Dardania, &C.) stood that eye of …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 275 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Christ, or otherwise according to his nature or properties, in some true measure, this IdaeaIdea or forme of God, as I may so call it, in the minde of …
    With rule
    … Christ, or otherwise according to his nature or properties, in some true measure, this IdaeaIdea or forme of God, as I may so call it, in the minde of …

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    § 6. Ad 15. Sect. I pretend not to have ſuch an IdaeaIdea of Spiritual Subſtance, as to denominate its conſiſtence more fitly than by Purity, a …
    With rule
    § 6. Ad 15. Sect. I pretend not to have ſuch an IdaeaIdea of Spiritual Subſtance, as to denominate its conſiſtence more fitly than by Purity, a …

    Richard Baxter · The Immortality of Mans Soul · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … together, either in a private, or in a more publicke way; where a full IdaeaIdea of the heads of means, and of the degrees of progreſſe in meditation and …
    With rule
    … together, either in a private, or in a more publicke way; where a full IdaeaIdea of the heads of means, and of the degrees of progreſſe in meditation and …

    John Dury · A Motion Tending to the Public Good of this Age and Posterity · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and fantaſticall ſignes? Shall wee dare to obtrude mens chimericall fancies, upon Gods incomprehenſible IdaeaIdea? Were his thoughts now like to our thoughts; that the ſtarres muſt be purpoſely …
    With rule
    … and fantaſticall ſignes? Shall wee dare to obtrude mens chimericall fancies, upon Gods incomprehenſible IdaeaIdea? Were his thoughts now like to our thoughts; that the ſtarres muſt be purpoſely …

    John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … be applied to us, Ye worship ye know not what! Who gave us our IdaeaIdea of that ever blessed Being? It is not God, but a despicable Idol of …
    With rule
    … be applied to us, Ye worship ye know not what! Who gave us our IdaeaIdea of that ever blessed Being? It is not God, but a despicable Idol of …

    John Howe · Delighting in God · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … all Cruelties Concentred in him,) hath been the Death of Twelve Millions of Chriſtians. IdaeaIdea Reform. Antichr. Tom. 1. Part 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 6. To Inſtance only one Specimen of this Pourtray'd …
    With rule
    … all Cruelties Concentred in him,) hath been the Death of Twelve Millions of Chriſtians. IdaeaIdea Reform. Antichr. Tom. 1. Part 2. Sect. 2. Cap. 6. To Inſtance only one Specimen of this Pourtray'd …

    Christopher Ness · The Devils Patriarch · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    A. It is the IdaeaIdea or perfect platform of all things in the mind of God, which either can …
    With rule
    A. It is the IdaeaIdea or perfect platform of all things in the mind of God, which either can …

    Thomas Shepard · The First Principles of the Oracles of God · p. 5 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

6 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.

Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites A15819

  • Printed
    … and faſhioned in himſelfe. Now this wiſdome of God differs from mans, becauſe his idaeaIdea or plot is firſt in the thing; becauſe he doth nothing primarily, but by …
    With rule
    … and faſhioned in himſelfe. Now this wiſdome of God differs from mans, becauſe his idaeaIdea or plot is firſt in the thing; becauſe he doth nothing primarily, but by …

    John Yates · Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … long before they exiſt in the world. Hence is God called the moſt perfect idaeaIdea of all things: a skilfull workeman hath the plot of his building in his …
    With rule
    … long before they exiſt in the world. Hence is God called the moſt perfect idaeaIdea of all things: a skilfull workeman hath the plot of his building in his …

    John Yates · Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites · p. 220 · Open in the reader

A Century of Sermons A43515

  • Printed
    … the long Robe of the Angel, which was white as ſnow, that it was idaeaIdea gloriae, the IdaeaIdea of that triumphant glory, which ſhall be in the bodies of …
    With rule
    … the long Robe of the Angel, which was white as ſnow, that it was idaeaIdea gloriae, the IdaeaIdea of that triumphant glory, which ſhall be in the bodies of …

    John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 602 · Open in the reader

The Fight of Faith A65295

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    … Carnal persons look upon the felicities of the other world, but as a Platonical idaeaIdea, or fancy; they do not see the Crown with bodily eyes, therefore they question …
    With rule
    … Carnal persons look upon the felicities of the other world, but as a Platonical idaeaIdea, or fancy; they do not see the Crown with bodily eyes, therefore they question …

    Thomas Watson · The Fight of Faith · p. 20 · Open in the reader

The Beatitudes A96093

  • Printed
    … a duſty impure ſoul; a pure heart (like a clean glaſſe) gives forth ſome idaeaIdea and repreſentation of God. There is little comfort in being like God in other …
    With rule
    … a duſty impure ſoul; a pure heart (like a clean glaſſe) gives forth ſome idaeaIdea and repreſentation of God. There is little comfort in being like God in other …

    Thomas Watson · The Beatitudes · p. 251 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … grace; as we call that a face in the glaſs, which is but the idaeaIdea, and reſemblance of a face; ſo John 2.23. Many believed in his Name; that believing …
    With rule
    … grace; as we call that a face in the glaſs, which is but the idaeaIdea, and reſemblance of a face; ſo John 2.23. Many believed in his Name; that believing …

    Thomas Watson · The Beatitudes · p. 512 · Open in the reader