Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50492 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ptolomiePtolemy

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

Puritas changed it: 129 times in 50 works
Consistency: 100% (129 of 129)
Reach if approved: ~136 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ptolemy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 129 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (129 changes in 50 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 129)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… her, Berenice or Beronice, i. e. the daughter of innocency or purity) the daughter PtolomiePtolemy Philadelph ſo called, for that he married his own ſiſter; and therefore his daughter …
With rule
… her, Berenice or Beronice, i. e. the daughter of innocency or purity) the daughter PtolomiePtolemy Philadelph ſo called, for that he married his own ſiſter; and therefore his daughter …
John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 571 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Thales and Solon, whom his Advocate qotes for it; or whether Hermes, Proclus, Plotinus, PtolomiePtolemy, Albumazar, Hali Rodoan, Baranzanus, &c. be anie better then ſuch, whom he qotes for …
With rule
… Thales and Solon, whom his Advocate qotes for it; or whether Hermes, Proclus, Plotinus, PtolomiePtolemy, Albumazar, Hali Rodoan, Baranzanus, &c. be anie better then ſuch, whom he qotes for …
Thomas Gataker · A Discourse Apologetical · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… two sonnes, and set them vpon that which was vnder the yoake (foreign:) Least King PtolomiePtolemy should haue derided our Master Moses, because he rode vpon an Asse, and that …
With rule
… two sonnes, and set them vpon that which was vnder the yoake (foreign:) Least King PtolomiePtolemy should haue derided our Master Moses, because he rode vpon an Asse, and that …
John Weemes · The Christian Synagogue · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them who either begott it or bred it, or preferred it in the church. PtolomiePtolemy is ſaid to haue killed the workemen of the image of Diana, or ſecretly …
With rule
… them who either begott it or bred it, or preferred it in the church. PtolomiePtolemy is ſaid to haue killed the workemen of the image of Diana, or ſecretly …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all particular kindes of Creatures decay of vigour? Terra effaeta, ſaith Tullie, through age. PtolomiePtolemy in his time obſerued the Sunne to be come neerer the earth by many …
With rule
… all particular kindes of Creatures decay of vigour? Terra effaeta, ſaith Tullie, through age. PtolomiePtolemy in his time obſerued the Sunne to be come neerer the earth by many …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the bridle, & would not be curbed by thoſe whom they had overcome in battell. PtolomiePtolemy felt of their tyrannicall power, whoſe Iſland Cyprus, although he were a kinge and …
With rule
… the bridle, & would not be curbed by thoſe whom they had overcome in battell. PtolomiePtolemy felt of their tyrannicall power, whoſe Iſland Cyprus, although he were a kinge and …
Thomas Brightman · Exposition of the Prophecy of Daniel · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… against the Lizard, and in the Mediterranian are the Isles of de Eres by PtolomiePtolemy, called the Staaechades.
With rule
… against the Lizard, and in the Mediterranian are the Isles of de Eres by PtolomiePtolemy, called the Staaechades.
Samuel Clarke · A New Description of the World · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the junior Aſtrologers now ſurmiſe, that there are ten Orbes; which Albertus himſelfe ſuppoſes PtolomiePtolemy alſo to have held Averroes alſo ſuppoſes him to reckon up nine; when as …
With rule
… the junior Aſtrologers now ſurmiſe, that there are ten Orbes; which Albertus himſelfe ſuppoſes PtolomiePtolemy alſo to have held Averroes alſo ſuppoſes him to reckon up nine; when as …
John Gaule · Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Spirits Divinations · 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.