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punickPunic

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

Puritas changed it
100 times in 48 works
Consistency
92.5% (100 of 108)
Reach if approved
~113 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: punic
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
108 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (100 changes in 48 works, 92.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 100)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Water of Life, and the immortall Nativity Nay, St. Auguſtine informs us, that the PunickPunic Chriſtians called Baptiſm by no other name then SALVATION; which he thought ſo proper …
    With rule
    … Water of Life, and the immortall Nativity Nay, St. Auguſtine informs us, that the PunickPunic Chriſtians called Baptiſm by no other name then SALVATION; which he thought ſo proper …

    Simon Patrick · Jesus and the Resurrection Justified by Witnesses in Heaven and Earth · p. 322 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … a window, with a garland upon his head, in the time of the ſecond PunickPunic war.
    With rule
    … a window, with a garland upon his head, in the time of the ſecond PunickPunic war.

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 201 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … evident from Sena in Plautus. Thus Grotius. Yea this Affinity 'twixt the Hebrew and PunickPunic Tongue was long ſince obſerved. Auſtin, expounding thoſe words of Chriſt Mat. 6.24. ſaies, that …
    With rule
    … evident from Sena in Plautus. Thus Grotius. Yea this Affinity 'twixt the Hebrew and PunickPunic Tongue was long ſince obſerved. Auſtin, expounding thoſe words of Chriſt Mat. 6.24. ſaies, that …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … by the ſtrength of Men and Oxen could not bee moued. In the ſecond PunickPunic-warre, an Oxe ſpake, and ſaid; Caue tibi Roma, Beware to thee Rome. The …
    With rule
    … by the ſtrength of Men and Oxen could not bee moued. In the ſecond PunickPunic-warre, an Oxe ſpake, and ſaid; Caue tibi Roma, Beware to thee Rome. The …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 328 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Ceaſſus, by the Parthians. He likewiſe relates in his Firſt Book of the Second PunickPunic War, that their Rained Stones in Picenium, which he takes for a forerunner of …
    With rule
    … Ceaſſus, by the Parthians. He likewiſe relates in his Firſt Book of the Second PunickPunic War, that their Rained Stones in Picenium, which he takes for a forerunner of …

    Balthasar Bekker · The World Bewitched · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    The Carthaginians who in the first PunickPunic Warres had been notably holpen by Xantippus the Lacedemonian, and by whose assistance they …
    With rule
    The Carthaginians who in the first PunickPunic Warres had been notably holpen by Xantippus the Lacedemonian, and by whose assistance they …

    Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 394 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … will that the original of the word foreign, be fetcht from no other than the PunickPunic Sufes, who, as 'tis well known, drew their tongue from the Syrophenicians or Cananites …
    With rule
    … will that the original of the word foreign, be fetcht from no other than the PunickPunic Sufes, who, as 'tis well known, drew their tongue from the Syrophenicians or Cananites …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    This I can attribute to nothing ſo much as thoſe his PunickPunic Ambuſca…ds where with he hath hitherto prevail'd againſt our more apert Roman Militia …
    With rule
    This I can attribute to nothing ſo much as thoſe his PunickPunic Ambuſca…ds where with he hath hitherto prevail'd againſt our more apert Roman Militia …

    Charles Hotham · The Petition and Argument of Mr Hotham · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

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

A Memorial Offered to John Williams A43532

  • Printed
    … Goods and Movables, and gave us a Ticket of publick Faith, that is, of punickPunic Faith, to repay it. Euclio in Plautus deſerved to be ſequeſtred, for ſpeaking ſo …
    With rule
    … Goods and Movables, and gave us a Ticket of publick Faith, that is, of punickPunic Faith, to repay it. Euclio in Plautus deſerved to be ſequeſtred, for ſpeaking ſo …

    John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 199 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles A85480

  • Printed
    … as in Plautus's Paenulus; & Siſenſa on that place has noted, that Alon, in the punickPunic Tongue, is God: Philo Byblius proceeds to ſhew, how that this foreign Eliun, called the …
    With rule
    … as in Plautus's Paenulus; & Siſenſa on that place has noted, that Alon, in the punickPunic Tongue, is God: Philo Byblius proceeds to ſhew, how that this foreign Eliun, called the …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · p. 201 · Open in the reader