Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50968 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chyrurgeonsSurgeons

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

Puritas changed it: 36 times in 31 works
Consistency: 97.3% (36 of 37)
Reach if approved: ~40 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: chirurgeons
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 38 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (36 changes in 31 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 36)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… For, many, no doubt, (accurſed be they) dealt with the Common-wealth as wicked ChyrurgeonsSurgeons do with wealthy Patients, under their cure. Others there are, who by ſuch purchaſes …
With rule
… For, many, no doubt, (accurſed be they) dealt with the Common-wealth as wicked ChyrurgeonsSurgeons do with wealthy Patients, under their cure. Others there are, who by ſuch purchaſes …
George Wither · The Speech Without Door · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Church to them, serv'd all their mean degenerous ends upon her; and as ChyrurgeonsSurgeons are said sometimes to deal with profitable Patients, kept open, nay, widened her wounds …
With rule
… the Church to them, serv'd all their mean degenerous ends upon her; and as ChyrurgeonsSurgeons are said sometimes to deal with profitable Patients, kept open, nay, widened her wounds …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 413 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sacrum, he was forced to keep his bed: and though his friends, Physitians, and ChyrurgeonsSurgeons used all means for his cure, yet he told them that his disease was …
With rule
… sacrum, he was forced to keep his bed: and though his friends, Physitians, and ChyrurgeonsSurgeons used all means for his cure, yet he told them that his disease was …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 272 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Barber-ChyrurgeonsSurgeons were Incorporated by Edw. 4. but confirmed by every King and Queen ſince, with enlargments …
With rule
The Barber-ChyrurgeonsSurgeons were Incorporated by Edw. 4. but confirmed by every King and Queen ſince, with enlargments …
Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 315 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which stuck to th… Iron, and other bits were scattered on her Forehead. Able ChyrurgeonsSurgeons were sent for; in special Mr. Oliver and Mr. Prat. The Head being uncovered …
With rule
… which stuck to th… Iron, and other bits were scattered on her Forehead. Able ChyrurgeonsSurgeons were sent for; in special Mr. Oliver and Mr. Prat. The Head being uncovered …
Increase Mather · The Illustrious Providences in New England · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for J. Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey, and A. Chandler at the ChyrurgeonsSurgeons Arms at the Entrance into Bartholomews-Cloſe in Alderſgate-ſtreet, 1692.
With rule
… for J. Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey, and A. Chandler at the ChyrurgeonsSurgeons Arms at the Entrance into Bartholomews-Cloſe in Alderſgate-ſtreet, 1692.
John Shower · The Mourners Companion · Open in the reader
Printed
… tooke up the Maid, nigh stifled, and carried her to a neighbours house, where ChyrurgeonsSurgeons were sent for, and she in time recovered of life, though shee had made …
With rule
… tooke up the Maid, nigh stifled, and carried her to a neighbours house, where ChyrurgeonsSurgeons were sent for, and she in time recovered of life, though shee had made …
Thomas Taylor · The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our ſevereſt puniſhing of offenders, and not wound like murderers to deſtroy, but like ChyrurgeonsSurgeons to cure, and to prevent the ſpreading of ſin yea puniſhment.
With rule
… our ſevereſt puniſhing of offenders, and not wound like murderers to deſtroy, but like ChyrurgeonsSurgeons to cure, and to prevent the ſpreading of ſin yea puniſhment.
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude · p. 607 · 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.