Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50874 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

delphickDelphic

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

Puritas changed it: 54 times in 38 works
Consistency: 96.4% (54 of 56)
Reach if approved: ~59 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: delphic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 56 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (54 changes in 38 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 54)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Thoſe DelphickDelphic lines with deep impreſſion took,
With rule
Thoſe DelphickDelphic lines with deep impreſſion took,
John Milton · Poems · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would think by the word EI; which was inſcribed in the front of the DelphickDelphic Temple (as Plutarch tells us) and was nothing elſe but the contraction of EIMI …
With rule
… would think by the word EI; which was inſcribed in the front of the DelphickDelphic Temple (as Plutarch tells us) and was nothing elſe but the contraction of EIMI …
Simon Patrick · Commentary on Exodus · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that the deity might be known. And whereas it may be objected, that the DelphickDelphic devil had foretold things to come: it is anſwered, that the devil cannot foretel …
With rule
… that the deity might be known. And whereas it may be objected, that the DelphickDelphic devil had foretold things to come: it is anſwered, that the devil cannot foretel …
John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Life it ſelfe, we may reſiſt and overcome them all by this alone DelphickDelphic Sword of Self-denyall.
With rule
… and Life it ſelfe, we may reſiſt and overcome them all by this alone DelphickDelphic Sword of Self-denyall.
Thomas Hooker · A Treatise of Self Denial · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
Triumphing, if his DelphickDelphic-Divinations
With rule
Triumphing, if his DelphickDelphic-Divinations
John Vicars · Against William Lily · Open in the reader
Printed
… pleased, and Marcellus applauded on all hands; when each Sect might from the same DelphickDelphic Oracle pick out his owne meaning. Thus came these Trent Decrees to be like …
With rule
… pleased, and Marcellus applauded on all hands; when each Sect might from the same DelphickDelphic Oracle pick out his owne meaning. Thus came these Trent Decrees to be like …
Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · Open in the reader
Printed
… among other things) a golden Table. Great was the controverſie whoſe this ſhould be. DelphickDelphic Apollo was conſulted to decide it: who anſwered, it ought to be given to …
With rule
… among other things) a golden Table. Great was the controverſie whoſe this ſhould be. DelphickDelphic Apollo was conſulted to decide it: who anſwered, it ought to be given to …
John Gaule · Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Spirits Divinations · p. 363 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a divine Original; therefore consecrating and writing it up in golden Characters in their DelphickDelphic Temple (as Pliny informs us) for an heavenly-inspired dictate.
With rule
… a divine Original; therefore consecrating and writing it up in golden Characters in their DelphickDelphic Temple (as Pliny informs us) for an heavenly-inspired dictate.
John Howe · The Blessedness of the Righteous · p. 249 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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