Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #51119 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

alchimistsAlchemists

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

Puritas changed it: 19 times in 17 works
Consistency: 100% (19 of 19)
Reach if approved: ~20 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 19 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (19 changes in 17 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 19)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Merchants of Argier) diſpoſſeſſe thē of all worldly cares and vanities, and like ſubtile AlchimiſtsAlchemists refine them out of their ſiluer and golden droſſe into a more ſublime eſtate …
With rule
… Merchants of Argier) diſpoſſeſſe thē of all worldly cares and vanities, and like ſubtile AlchimiſtsAlchemists refine them out of their ſiluer and golden droſſe into a more ſublime eſtate …
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
This priviledge cannot be denyed to many of the heathen; who as AlchimistsAlchemists, though they misse of their end, yet they finde many excellent things by the …
With rule
This priviledge cannot be denyed to many of the heathen; who as AlchimistsAlchemists, though they misse of their end, yet they finde many excellent things by the …
John Preston · The Fullness of Christ for Us · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that diſtinguiſh between the ſubſtance of a man and his ſinne, do as the AlchimiſtsAlchemists ſeparating from the oyl, oleity; from a ſtone, lapideity; ſo theſe from Adam, Adameity …
With rule
… that diſtinguiſh between the ſubſtance of a man and his ſinne, do as the AlchimiſtsAlchemists ſeparating from the oyl, oleity; from a ſtone, lapideity; ſo theſe from Adam, Adameity …
Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · p. 553 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of magical Art, of the Prodigious Images of Aſtrologers, of the monſtrous tranſmutations of AlchimiſtsAlchemists, of the bleſſed ſtone, by which, Mydas-like, all mettals that were touched, were …
With rule
… of magical Art, of the Prodigious Images of Aſtrologers, of the monſtrous tranſmutations of AlchimiſtsAlchemists, of the bleſſed ſtone, by which, Mydas-like, all mettals that were touched, were …
John Gaule · Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Spirits Divinations · Open in the reader
Printed
AlchimistsAlchemists, why obscure, 206
With rule
AlchimistsAlchemists, why obscure, 206
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Religion and Learning · Open in the reader
Printed
… answer, that this priviledg cannot be denyed to many among the Heathen, that as AlchimistsAlchemists, though they misse the end, yet they finde many excellent things by the way …
With rule
… answer, that this priviledg cannot be denyed to many among the Heathen, that as AlchimistsAlchemists, though they misse the end, yet they finde many excellent things by the way …
John Preston · Sunbeams of Gospel Light · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… die they are undone. They spend all their time in seeking after wisdom; as AlchimistsAlchemists spend all their estates, to find out the Philosophers stone; but never find it …
With rule
… die they are undone. They spend all their time in seeking after wisdom; as AlchimistsAlchemists spend all their estates, to find out the Philosophers stone; but never find it …
Richard Younge · A Christian Library · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… die they are undone. They ſpend all their time in ſeeking after wiſdom; as AlchimiſtsAlchemists spend all their eſtates, to find out the Philoſophers stone; but never find it …
With rule
… die they are undone. They ſpend all their time in ſeeking after wiſdom; as AlchimiſtsAlchemists spend all their eſtates, to find out the Philoſophers stone; but never find it …
Richard Younge · The Trial of True Wisdom · p. 6 · 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.