Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50508 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

physicionPhysician

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

Puritas changed it: 133 times in 42 works
Consistency: 93.0% (133 of 143)
Reach if approved: ~150 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: physician
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 143 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (133 changes in 42 works, 93.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 133)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the ſoules health. And as deſperate medicines, if they bee applyed by a skilfull PhyſicionPhysician, argue a deſperate caſe in the patient, ſo deſperate doctrines proue a deſperate cauſe …
With rule
… the ſoules health. And as deſperate medicines, if they bee applyed by a skilfull PhyſicionPhysician, argue a deſperate caſe in the patient, ſo deſperate doctrines proue a deſperate cauſe …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 497 · Open in the reader
Printed
… al but ſcant to ſome litle purpoſe: at length ſhe came to Chriſt the PhyſicionPhysician of our ſoules, and found remedy of her bodilie ſicknes. Whereupon I ask, now …
With rule
… al but ſcant to ſome litle purpoſe: at length ſhe came to Chriſt the PhyſicionPhysician of our ſoules, and found remedy of her bodilie ſicknes. Whereupon I ask, now …
John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Which is much like as if a ſicke man ſhould be perſwaded, that a PhyſicionPhysician hath skill enough to helpe him, and the Apothecary hath drugs enow to doe …
With rule
… Which is much like as if a ſicke man ſhould be perſwaded, that a PhyſicionPhysician hath skill enough to helpe him, and the Apothecary hath drugs enow to doe …
Francis Bunny · An Exposition of Romans 3:28 · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being ſicke in ſinne, euen vnto the death, doe flee vnto thee the alone PhyſicionPhysician of our ſoules, that wee may be eaſed and cured, and doe here lay …
With rule
… being ſicke in ſinne, euen vnto the death, doe flee vnto thee the alone PhyſicionPhysician of our ſoules, that wee may be eaſed and cured, and doe here lay …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 903 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to end them? Just as if the plague or feaver were common, and one PhysicionPhysician would say, all men shall die that will not believe that I can cure …
With rule
… to end them? Just as if the plague or feaver were common, and one PhysicionPhysician would say, all men shall die that will not believe that I can cure …
Richard Baxter · The Certainty of Christianity Without Popery · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the Mediator being Eternal Life, Joh. 17.3. And as Taking a man for my PhyſicionPhysician, is taking him, by his medicines to help me to my health, and ſo …
With rule
… and the Mediator being Eternal Life, Joh. 17.3. And as Taking a man for my PhyſicionPhysician, is taking him, by his medicines to help me to my health, and ſo …
Richard Baxter · Full and Easy Satisfaction · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conduct of our own diſcretion, to whom the Magiſtrate appoints it; as if a PhyſicionPhysician muſt give no Phyſick but by your preſcript. The antidiſciplinarian Magiſtrate I could as …
With rule
… conduct of our own diſcretion, to whom the Magiſtrate appoints it; as if a PhyſicionPhysician muſt give no Phyſick but by your preſcript. The antidiſciplinarian Magiſtrate I could as …
Richard Baxter · A Sermon of Repentance · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thy self to be healed, and justified, and saved by him, as the only PhysicionPhysician of souls, thou art then his member, and thy name is written in Heaven …
With rule
… thy self to be healed, and justified, and saved by him, as the only PhysicionPhysician of souls, thou art then his member, and thy name is written in Heaven …
Richard Baxter · Right Rejoicing · p. 27 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

Printed
… moſt grieuous crimes proued againſt him, as that he had hired Marſilius Parmenſis a phyſicionPhysician, to poiſon Alexander his predeceſſor: that he was an heretike, a ſimoniake, a lier …
With rule
… moſt grieuous crimes proued againſt him, as that he had hired Marſilius Parmenſis a phyſicionPhysician, to poiſon Alexander his predeceſſor: that he was an heretike, a ſimoniake, a lier …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 321 · Open in the reader

Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God A13881

Printed
… Captain… and a Generall / knowledge and ſkill off war fare and chieualty / off a phyſicionPhysician / that he know how to mayteyne the health and to recouer them that are …
With rule
… Captain… and a Generall / knowledge and ſkill off war fare and chieualty / off a phyſicionPhysician / that he know how to mayteyne the health and to recouer them that are …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 91 · Open in the reader

Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God A16338

Printed
… weake body, with fresh accessions of vigor and vnweariednesse. Shee was to him friends, physicionPhysician, husband, Nurse. These are nothing: She was Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, daughter, euery thing …
With rule
… weake body, with fresh accessions of vigor and vnweariednesse. Shee was to him friends, physicionPhysician, husband, Nurse. These are nothing: She was Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, daughter, euery thing …
Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 252 · Open in the reader

The Mischiefs of Self-Ignorance A26955

Printed
… and enemie never tell him of them: He hath the happineſs of keeping his phyſicionPhysician unacquainted with his diſeaſe, and conſequently of keeping the diſeaſe. The other is the …
With rule
… and enemie never tell him of them: He hath the happineſs of keeping his phyſicionPhysician unacquainted with his diſeaſe, and conſequently of keeping the diſeaſe. The other is the …
Richard Baxter · The Mischiefs of Self-Ignorance · p. 485 · Open in the reader

A Saint or a Brute A27016

Printed
… that time the charge be paid, the ſickneſs that fulneſs breedeth be endured, the phyſicionPhysician paid, and all the effects of gluttony overcome, you will find that the pleaſure …
With rule
… that time the charge be paid, the ſickneſs that fulneſs breedeth be endured, the phyſicionPhysician paid, and all the effects of gluttony overcome, you will find that the pleaſure …
Richard Baxter · A Saint or a Brute · p. 308 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Is it not then unreaſonable when you have troubled your ſelves, to blame your phyſicionPhysician for troubling you in order to a cure?
With rule
… Is it not then unreaſonable when you have troubled your ſelves, to blame your phyſicionPhysician for troubling you in order to a cure?
Richard Baxter · A Saint or a Brute · p. 309 · Open in the reader