Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50840 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

alchymistAlchemist

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

Puritas changed it: 55 times in 51 works
Consistency: 100% (55 of 55)
Reach if approved: ~58 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: alchemist
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 55 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (55 changes in 51 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 55)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… born in Norfolk, who wrote certaine vaine Prophesies. Thomas Norto… born in Bristow, an AlchymistAlchemist… Scoga… a learned Gentleman, and a Student for a time in Oxford; who for …
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… born in Norfolk, who wrote certaine vaine Prophesies. Thomas Norto… born in Bristow, an AlchymistAlchemist… Scoga… a learned Gentleman, and a Student for a time in Oxford; who for …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
Who, like a skilfull AlchymiſtAlchemist and try'd,
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Who, like a skilfull AlchymiſtAlchemist and try'd,
Edward Calver · Passion and Discretion in Youth and Age · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
One Conſtantine a famous AlchymiſtAlchemist told this ſtory of ſome of his fellows; that they greedy of Gold, blew …
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One Conſtantine a famous AlchymiſtAlchemist told this ſtory of ſome of his fellows; that they greedy of Gold, blew …
John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 361 · Open in the reader
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… and burned to aſhes; he knowes the duſt of his Saints. We know the AlchymiſtAlchemist can convert one thing to another, and afterward reduce it to the thing that …
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… and burned to aſhes; he knowes the duſt of his Saints. We know the AlchymiſtAlchemist can convert one thing to another, and afterward reduce it to the thing that …
John Simpson · The Herbal of Divinity · p. 30 · Open in the reader
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… fall? but, What if I runne ouer and fall not? He is a confident AlchymiſtAlchemist, and braggeth, that the wombe of his Furnace hath conceiued a burden that will …
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… fall? but, What if I runne ouer and fall not? He is a confident AlchymiſtAlchemist, and braggeth, that the wombe of his Furnace hath conceiued a burden that will …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 195 · Open in the reader
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… things into ſpirituall uſes, and changes the nature of them, and like a true AlchymiſtAlchemist, turneth braſs into Gold; but the Jews on the other ſide turned Gold into …
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… things into ſpirituall uſes, and changes the nature of them, and like a true AlchymiſtAlchemist, turneth braſs into Gold; but the Jews on the other ſide turned Gold into …
Job Royse · The Spirits Touchstone · p. 14 · Open in the reader
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… no poyſon but honey. And I haue often heard them ſay that the cunning AlchymiſtAlchemist can draw gall out of hony, and hony out of gall: you muſt therefore …
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… no poyſon but honey. And I haue often heard them ſay that the cunning AlchymiſtAlchemist can draw gall out of hony, and hony out of gall: you muſt therefore …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a worthy Diuine calls it, Spirituall pride. A guilded poyson, which Satan, that cunning AlchymistAlchemist and hellish Spider, doth first extract out of the very sweetest and fairest flowers …
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… a worthy Diuine calls it, Spirituall pride. A guilded poyson, which Satan, that cunning AlchymistAlchemist and hellish Spider, doth first extract out of the very sweetest and fairest flowers …
Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 339 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.