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zodiackeZodiac

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

Puritas changed it
39 times in 27 works
Consistency
97.5% (39 of 40)
Reach if approved
~42 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: zodiac
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
40 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (39 changes in 27 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 39)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … not … to the Poles, nor are these dayes measured by the Sunne in his ZodiackeZodiac: all is pitched aboue the Wheele of changeable mortalitie. It is Eternitie that fils …
    With rule
    … not … to the Poles, nor are these dayes measured by the Sunne in his ZodiackeZodiac: all is pitched aboue the Wheele of changeable mortalitie. It is Eternitie that fils …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 247 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … naturall course in the ZodiackeZodiac betwéene the two Tropicks or Turnepoynts, so as the ZodiackeZodiac is as it were his race, and the Tropicks are his vtmost listes, both …
    With rule
    … naturall course in the ZodiackeZodiac betwéene the two Tropicks or Turnepoynts, so as the ZodiackeZodiac is as it were his race, and the Tropicks are his vtmost listes, both …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the ground of all figures, are made of the fained signes of a supposed ZodiackeZodiac, in the highest spheare commonly called the first Mooueable: and therefore to these houses …
    With rule
    … the ground of all figures, are made of the fained signes of a supposed ZodiackeZodiac, in the highest spheare commonly called the first Mooueable: and therefore to these houses …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the earth, but yet I am sure, there is not any people vnder the ZodiackeZodiac of heauen, how clownish, rurall or brutish soeuer, that is so poisoned with this …
    With rule
    … the earth, but yet I am sure, there is not any people vnder the ZodiackeZodiac of heauen, how clownish, rurall or brutish soeuer, that is so poisoned with this …

    Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſhould ſay, Iupiters ſonnes. Againe, they ſaid that they are the ſigne in the ZodiackeZodiac called Gemini. There was alſo another ſuperſtition among the marriners, that thoſe firie exhalations …
    With rule
    … ſhould ſay, Iupiters ſonnes. Againe, they ſaid that they are the ſigne in the ZodiackeZodiac called Gemini. There was alſo another ſuperſtition among the marriners, that thoſe firie exhalations …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Acts · p. 586 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … they worſhipped as a creating god (for the Ram is a ſigne of the ZodiackeZodiac) were greatly perplexed, and began to imagine evill againſt Iſrael. Then God wrought a …
    With rule
    … they worſhipped as a creating god (for the Ram is a ſigne of the ZodiackeZodiac) were greatly perplexed, and began to imagine evill againſt Iſrael. Then God wrought a …

    Johann II Buxtorf · The Jewish Synagogue · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … or neere the Equinoctiall. And the laſt is the polar diall, which followeth the ZodiackeZodiac, and the houres are contracted upon the South ſide of the Equinoctiall in the …
    With rule
    … or neere the Equinoctiall. And the laſt is the polar diall, which followeth the ZodiackeZodiac, and the houres are contracted upon the South ſide of the Equinoctiall in the …

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … or neere the Equinoctiall. And the laſt is the polar diall, which followeth the ZodiackeZodiac, and the houres are contracted upon the South ſide of the Equinoctiall in the …
    With rule
    … or neere the Equinoctiall. And the laſt is the polar diall, which followeth the ZodiackeZodiac, and the houres are contracted upon the South ſide of the Equinoctiall in the …

    John Weemes · Explication of the Judicial Laws of Moses · p. 90 · 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.