Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50771 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

magitianMagician

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

Puritas changed it: 70 times in 43 works
Consistency: 93.3% (70 of 75)
Reach if approved: ~79 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: magician
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 75 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (70 changes in 43 works, 93.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 70)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as in a circle. Thus, by counterfeiting the froggs, they doe, as the Aegyptian MagitianMagician… seeke thereby, (even by their very clamarousnesse and obstreperousnes, to disgrace Moses and Aaron …
With rule
… as in a circle. Thus, by counterfeiting the froggs, they doe, as the Aegyptian MagitianMagician… seeke thereby, (even by their very clamarousnesse and obstreperousnes, to disgrace Moses and Aaron …
Henry Burton · The Seven Vials · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… head, and ſet it upon his own, whereupon all being amazed, one Balaam a MagitianMagician, put Pharaoh in minde of a dreame hee had had, which was this: There …
With rule
… head, and ſet it upon his own, whereupon all being amazed, one Balaam a MagitianMagician, put Pharaoh in minde of a dreame hee had had, which was this: There …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Moses Self-Denial · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Basilius out of Gregories Dialogues, Lib. 1. Cap 4. whom he confesseth to have been a MagitianMagician; and of Bogomilus in the dayes of Alexius Comnenus 1100 years after Christ, whose putting …
With rule
… Basilius out of Gregories Dialogues, Lib. 1. Cap 4. whom he confesseth to have been a MagitianMagician; and of Bogomilus in the dayes of Alexius Comnenus 1100 years after Christ, whose putting …
John Owen · Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the Iewes, and to us now; for we take Magus commonly for a MagitianMagician: the Arabick tranſlateth Magus, by Hhartom, from Hharat, fingere or formare; becauſe the Magitians …
With rule
… to the Iewes, and to us now; for we take Magus commonly for a MagitianMagician: the Arabick tranſlateth Magus, by Hhartom, from Hharat, fingere or formare; becauſe the Magitians …
John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his own fellow, Maister Johnson as the Persian did through his fellows sides the MagitianMagician. For Maister Bradshaw in these reasons precisely followeth Maister Iohnson, as Maister Can himselfe …
With rule
… his own fellow, Maister Johnson as the Persian did through his fellows sides the MagitianMagician. For Maister Bradshaw in these reasons precisely followeth Maister Iohnson, as Maister Can himselfe …
William Bradshaw · The Unreasonableness of the Separation Made Apparent 2 · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rely vpon this Interpretation, addeth a ſecond, to wit, that Antichriſt ſhall bee a MagitianMagician, and ſhall worſhip the deuill in ſecret, by whoſe aide he ſhall effect wonderfull …
With rule
… rely vpon this Interpretation, addeth a ſecond, to wit, that Antichriſt ſhall bee a MagitianMagician, and ſhall worſhip the deuill in ſecret, by whoſe aide he ſhall effect wonderfull …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 299 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was broached, or hammered out at firſt by one, who was, ſome ſay, a MagitianMagician, and 'twas withſtood by Irenaeus, and Epiphanius; after urged againe by Pope Leo the …
With rule
… was broached, or hammered out at firſt by one, who was, ſome ſay, a MagitianMagician, and 'twas withſtood by Irenaeus, and Epiphanius; after urged againe by Pope Leo the …
William Sclater · The Worthy Communicant Rewarded · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the Iewes, and to us now; for we take Magus commonly for a MagitianMagician: the Arabick▪ tranſlateth Magus, by Hhartom, from Hharat, fingere or formare; becauſe the Magitians …
With rule
… to the Iewes, and to us now; for we take Magus commonly for a MagitianMagician: the Arabick▪ tranſlateth Magus, by Hhartom, from Hharat, fingere or formare; becauſe the Magitians …
John Weemes · Exercitations Divine · p. 132 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

Treatise of the Four Degenerate Sons A68868

Printed
A TREATISE OF THE FOVRE DEGENERATE SONNES, The ATHEIST, the MAGITIANMAGICIAN, the IDOLATER, and the IEVV.
With rule
A TREATISE OF THE FOVRE DEGENERATE SONNES, The ATHEIST, the MAGITIANMAGICIAN, the IDOLATER, and the IEVV.
John Weemes · Treatise of the Four Degenerate Sons · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of the ſecond degenerate Son the MAGITIANMAGICIAN.
With rule
Of the ſecond degenerate Son the MAGITIANMAGICIAN.
John Weemes · Treatise of the Four Degenerate Sons · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… now it is degenerate, and no man will be content to be called a magitianMagician. So Idiota at the firſt ſignified a private man, 1 Cor. 14.23. If there come in …
With rule
… now it is degenerate, and no man will be content to be called a magitianMagician. So Idiota at the firſt ſignified a private man, 1 Cor. 14.23. If there come in …
John Weemes · Treatise of the Four Degenerate Sons · p. 115 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined A90295

Printed
… laboured to pervert others to the same superstition with himselfe, he dyed a desperate magitianMagician. Have none in our daies beene led in the like maze? hath not Sathan …
With rule
… laboured to pervert others to the same superstition with himselfe, he dyed a desperate magitianMagician. Have none in our daies beene led in the like maze? hath not Sathan …
John Owen · The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined · p. 27 · Open in the reader