Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50515 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chirurgionsSurgeons

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

Puritas changed it: 124 times in 110 works
Consistency: 97.6% (124 of 127)
Reach if approved: ~136 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: chirurgeons
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 (124 changes in 110 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 124)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… s vacant Seat, made it the M…ſter-piece of their policy (like ſelfſeeking ChirurgionsSurgeons) to keep our wounds open, that they might keep themſelves in practiſe: and to …
With rule
… s vacant Seat, made it the M…ſter-piece of their policy (like ſelfſeeking ChirurgionsSurgeons) to keep our wounds open, that they might keep themſelves in practiſe: and to …
Simon Ford · The Loyal Subjects Indignation · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the King to be carryed to the next house; where, after a little, the ChirurgionsSurgeons being convened at the Queens command, to view and consider the manner of his …
With rule
… the King to be carryed to the next house; where, after a little, the ChirurgionsSurgeons being convened at the Queens command, to view and consider the manner of his …
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 441 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them therein by ſtrong aſtringent medicaments and ligaments: So all our new State-phyſicians, ChirurgionsSurgeons, Politicians, Councils at Westminster, White-hall, or in the Army, with all their ar …
With rule
… them therein by ſtrong aſtringent medicaments and ligaments: So all our new State-phyſicians, ChirurgionsSurgeons, Politicians, Councils at Westminster, White-hall, or in the Army, with all their ar …
William Prynne · Vindication of the Old and New Secluded Members · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thought the Hens had peckt ſo deep, as to ſend their Husbands to the ChirurgionsSurgeons.
With rule
… thought the Hens had peckt ſo deep, as to ſend their Husbands to the ChirurgionsSurgeons.
Samuel Shaw · The Different Humors of Men · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… raw and angry wound, which feeles as great paine in the good of a ChirurgionsSurgeons, as in the ill offices of an Enemies hand, it can equally draw nourishment …
With rule
… raw and angry wound, which feeles as great paine in the good of a ChirurgionsSurgeons, as in the ill offices of an Enemies hand, it can equally draw nourishment …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet is a bough. That member is gangrenated, yet is a member till the ChirurgionsSurgeons knife comes and hath done its office. Sardis was a true viſible church, yet …
With rule
… yet is a bough. That member is gangrenated, yet is a member till the ChirurgionsSurgeons knife comes and hath done its office. Sardis was a true viſible church, yet …
Robert Abbot · A Trial of Church-Forsakers · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Printed for Dor. Newman, and are to be ſold at his Shop at the ChirurgionsSurgeons Arms in Little Brittain near the Hoſpital-gate, 1668.
With rule
… Printed for Dor. Newman, and are to be ſold at his Shop at the ChirurgionsSurgeons Arms in Little Brittain near the Hoſpital-gate, 1668.
Jeremiah Burroughs · Gospel Remission · Open in the reader
Printed
… by an Ass…ssine with a poisoned knife, but by the diligence of his ChirurgionsSurgeons, and the unparallel'd love of his wife, who sucked the poison out of his …
With rule
… by an Ass…ssine with a poisoned knife, but by the diligence of his ChirurgionsSurgeons, and the unparallel'd love of his wife, who sucked the poison out of his …
Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 303 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.