ephemerist

English

Noun

ephemerist (plural ephemerists)

1. 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'.

2. 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

3. One who keeps an ephemeris; a diarist.

References

“ephemerist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Petersheim