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tropickTropic

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

Puritas changed it
72 times in 44 works
Consistency
93.5% (72 of 77)
Reach if approved
~81 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: tropic
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
77 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (72 changes in 44 works, 93.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 72)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Sun, which by a certain vicissitude, and declination of it self from one TropickTropic to the other, begets shadows of a different size, and the nearer it is …
    With rule
    … the Sun, which by a certain vicissitude, and declination of it self from one TropickTropic to the other, begets shadows of a different size, and the nearer it is …

    Thomas De Laune · A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſtand in need of the meaneſt before the Sun ſhines again from the Northern TropickTropic, and thoſe that ſcrape in dunghills and rake for Nails in Chapels, may ride …
    With rule
    … ſtand in need of the meaneſt before the Sun ſhines again from the Northern TropickTropic, and thoſe that ſcrape in dunghills and rake for Nails in Chapels, may ride …

    Samuel Lee · The Triumph of Mercy in the Chariot of Praise · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hath ſhorter Nights and longer Days, than when it is farther off in the TropickTropic of Capricorn. Now whereas the great Bear (being ſo nigh the leſſer Bear or …
    With rule
    … hath ſhorter Nights and longer Days, than when it is farther off in the TropickTropic of Capricorn. Now whereas the great Bear (being ſo nigh the leſſer Bear or …

    Christopher Ness · Account of the Present Blazing Star · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … was reſcued before the candle dropt, by this noble Champion, who retreating from that TropickTropic, fought his way backe againe through hunger and hardſhip: and becauſe this Retreat ſhould …
    With rule
    … was reſcued before the candle dropt, by this noble Champion, who retreating from that TropickTropic, fought his way backe againe through hunger and hardſhip: and becauſe this Retreat ſhould …

    Richard Vines · The Hearse of the Renowned Robert Earl · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … with others, with the Scriptures; his ex…reme mutability and roving from TropickTropic to TropickTropic without ſettledneſs any where, do in great meaſure prove the report to be true …
    With rule
    … with others, with the Scriptures; his ex…reme mutability and roving from TropickTropic to TropickTropic without ſettledneſs any where, do in great meaſure prove the report to be true …

    John Crandon · Baxters Aphorisms · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Ʋnder the TropickTropic, is, our Language ſpoke,
    With rule
    Ʋnder the TropickTropic, is, our Language ſpoke,

    George Wither · Salt Upon Salt · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … part of this Country, lying North from Hispania nova, some few degrees without the TropickTropic of Cancer; into which when they had arrived, because of the continuall greennesse of …
    With rule
    … part of this Country, lying North from Hispania nova, some few degrees without the TropickTropic of Cancer; into which when they had arrived, because of the continuall greennesse of …

    Archbishop George Abbot · A Brief Description of the Whole World · p. 287 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Princes Island lyes between the Aequator, and the TropickTropic of Capricorn, near unto the Isle of St. Hellen: Its called Princes Island, because …
    With rule
    Princes Island lyes between the Aequator, and the TropickTropic of Capricorn, near unto the Isle of St. Hellen: Its called Princes Island, because …

    Samuel Clarke · A Geographical Description of All the Countries in the Known World · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 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.

A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine A40681

  • Printed
    … z by the Iews and their neighbours) takes his leave of them in the tropickTropic of Cancer, and retreateth southward, making shorter days by d…gre…s. This Phenician …
    With rule
    … z by the Iews and their neighbours) takes his leave of them in the tropickTropic of Cancer, and retreateth southward, making shorter days by d…gre…s. This Phenician …

    Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 137 · Open in the reader

The Rising Sun A59622

  • Printed
    … be such a thing as never was yet seen, he should go beyond his tropickTropic. But ever where the Sun of Righteousnesse comes and finds not the Son of …
    With rule
    … be such a thing as never was yet seen, he should go beyond his tropickTropic. But ever where the Sun of Righteousnesse comes and finds not the Son of …

    John Sheffield · The Rising Sun · p. 125 · Open in the reader