ephemerist
English edit
Noun edit
ephemerist (plural ephemerists)
- One who collects or studies ephemera.
- 1988, Maurice Rickards, Collecting printed ephemera, page 30:
- The true ephemerist is as committed to the smallest neglected fragment as to the spectacular 'collector's piece'.
- One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
- 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
- the night immediately before he was discoursing of, and lighting the art of those foolish Astrologers, and Genethliacall Ephemerists
- One who keeps an ephemeris; a diarist.
References edit
“ephemerist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.