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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50739 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chyrurgeonSurgeon

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

Puritas changed it
71 times in 53 works
Consistency
98.6% (71 of 72)
Reach if approved
~76 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: chirurgeon
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
72 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (71 changes in 53 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 71)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Cornaton, Labonnius, Yolett the Master of his Horse, Merlin his Chaplain, Paraeus the Kings ChyrurgeonSurgeon, and some four or five Servants: Teligni was gone to the next house, where …
    With rule
    … Cornaton, Labonnius, Yolett the Master of his Horse, Merlin his Chaplain, Paraeus the Kings ChyrurgeonSurgeon, and some four or five Servants: Teligni was gone to the next house, where …

    Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Twenty-Two Eminent English Divines · p. 292 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … a Church-yard of, until Anno 1420. And the 8 of H. 5. Thomas Morſtead Eſq and ChyrurgeonSurgeon to the Kings H. 4. H. 5. & H. 6. (and afterwards, Anno 1436. was Sheriff and Alderman of …
    With rule
    … a Church-yard of, until Anno 1420. And the 8 of H. 5. Thomas Morſtead Eſq and ChyrurgeonSurgeon to the Kings H. 4. H. 5. & H. 6. (and afterwards, Anno 1436. was Sheriff and Alderman of …

    Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … great weakneſs above ten weeks, all which time two Doctors, an Apothecary and a ChyrurgeonSurgeon did daily attend her, and adminiſtred unto her freely without any Money, and at …
    With rule
    … great weakneſs above ten weeks, all which time two Doctors, an Apothecary and a ChyrurgeonSurgeon did daily attend her, and adminiſtred unto her freely without any Money, and at …

    Hanserd Knollys · Life and Death of Mr Hanserd Knollys · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … many lessons more effectually, than the Word it self without them can do. The ChyrurgeonSurgeon and the Executioner do both bind men, but to different Ends; the one doth …
    With rule
    … many lessons more effectually, than the Word it self without them can do. The ChyrurgeonSurgeon and the Executioner do both bind men, but to different Ends; the one doth …

    Richard Steele · Concerning Old Age · p. 167 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſo eaſily cured then as now) and what a deſperate way the Smart the ChyrurgeonSurgeon put him to, and bad Counſell put him upon; Such it was, that there …
    With rule
    … ſo eaſily cured then as now) and what a deſperate way the Smart the ChyrurgeonSurgeon put him to, and bad Counſell put him upon; Such it was, that there …

    Hezekiah Woodward · A Sons Patrimony and Daughters Portion · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … unto him. Where a Carpenter covenants to make to me a Houſe, or a ChyrurgeonSurgeon takes upon him to cure me of my Hurts, and they do not, for …
    With rule
    … unto him. Where a Carpenter covenants to make to me a Houſe, or a ChyrurgeonSurgeon takes upon him to cure me of my Hurts, and they do not, for …

    John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 352 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … relief or succor. I am sick, and there is no Physitian, wounded, and no ChyrurgeonSurgeon, broken with breach upon breach, and there is no repairer.
    With rule
    … relief or succor. I am sick, and there is no Physitian, wounded, and no ChyrurgeonSurgeon, broken with breach upon breach, and there is no repairer.

    Samuel Willard · Sermon Upon the Death of Jon Leveret · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … not onely wilfully wounded our ſoules with ſinne, but alſo haue deſpited our heauenly ChyrurgeonSurgeon by caſting away the plaiſters which hee hath applied for our cure, hee will …
    With rule
    … not onely wilfully wounded our ſoules with ſinne, but alſo haue deſpited our heauenly ChyrurgeonSurgeon by caſting away the plaiſters which hee hath applied for our cure, hee will …

    John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 69 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.