Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #53138 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

physitionphysician

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 600 times in 204 works
Consistency: 100% (600 of 600)
Reach if approved: ~630 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: physician
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 600 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (600 changes in 204 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 600)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… more perfect the light begun, till it come to glorie: and as the ſame PhyſitionPhysician which firſt recouereth vs from ſome deadly lingering euill, muſt after reſtore decayed ſtrength …
With rule
… more perfect the light begun, till it come to glorie: and as the ſame PhyſitionPhysician which firſt recouereth vs from ſome deadly lingering euill, muſt after reſtore decayed ſtrength …
Paul Baynes · Two Treatises, The Lords Prayer, The Six Principles · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet becauſe many neceſſary points depend on this; and wee neuer ſéeke the heauenly PhyſitionPhysician till we vnderſtand and féele our diſeaſe, and the danger; Therefore it is neceſſary …
With rule
… yet becauſe many neceſſary points depend on this; and wee neuer ſéeke the heauenly PhyſitionPhysician till we vnderſtand and féele our diſeaſe, and the danger; Therefore it is neceſſary …
Elnathan Parr · The Grounds of Divinity · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtrength, which vnto the vnskilfull giues hope of perfect recouerie, but vnto the learned PhyſitionPhysician, as the extreameſt endeuor of Nature, is an infallible token of certaine death.
With rule
… ſtrength, which vnto the vnskilfull giues hope of perfect recouerie, but vnto the learned PhyſitionPhysician, as the extreameſt endeuor of Nature, is an infallible token of certaine death.
Gabriel Powel · Refutation of a Puritan-Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs, are three. Sinne, Ignorance, Weakneſſe. The remedies whereof we finde in Chriſt, the PhyſitionPhysician of our ſoules. Medicus eſt miniſter naturae: that which is wanting by nature, is …
With rule
… vs, are three. Sinne, Ignorance, Weakneſſe. The remedies whereof we finde in Chriſt, the PhyſitionPhysician of our ſoules. Medicus eſt miniſter naturae: that which is wanting by nature, is …
John Prime · The Sacraments Generally and of Baptism and the Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chirurgion to cure the wounds of the ſoule. Now it is not for a PhyſitionPhysician to preſcribe to the whole, but to the ſicke; nor for the Chirurgion to …
With rule
… Chirurgion to cure the wounds of the ſoule. Now it is not for a PhyſitionPhysician to preſcribe to the whole, but to the ſicke; nor for the Chirurgion to …
Richard Rogers · Sermons · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… spirits, he rayseth them by this, Let not your hearts be troubled. The heavenly PhysitionPhysician of our soules applieth then the remedy when it is the fittest season.
With rule
… spirits, he rayseth them by this, Let not your hearts be troubled. The heavenly PhysitionPhysician of our soules applieth then the remedy when it is the fittest season.
Richard Sibbes · Two Sermons 2 · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not a phisition for the body, but to teach mē that he was a PhysitionPhysician for the soule, and as he healed the diseased in bodie onely by faith …
With rule
… not a phisition for the body, but to teach mē that he was a PhysitionPhysician for the soule, and as he healed the diseased in bodie onely by faith …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 353 · Open in the reader
Printed
… improving of thoſe helpes, & means which may be uſed: Almighty God our moſt wiſe PhyſitionPhysician, who ſees us inwardly, and is better acquainted with our conſtitution, and temper then …
With rule
… improving of thoſe helpes, & means which may be uſed: Almighty God our moſt wiſe PhyſitionPhysician, who ſees us inwardly, and is better acquainted with our conſtitution, and temper then …
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 432 · 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.