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ephemerists

ephemerists is the plural of ephemerist.

Meaning of ephemerist

Noun

ephemerist (plural ephemerists)

  1. One who collects or studies ephemera.
    • The true ephemerist is as committed to the smallest neglected fragment as to the spectacular 'collector's piece'.1988, Maurice Rickards, Collecting printed ephemera, page 30
  2. One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets.
    • the night immediately before he was discoursing of, and lighting the art of those foolish Astrologers, and Genethliacall Ephemerists1640, 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
  3. One who keeps an ephemeris; a diarist.

Questions about ephemerists

What is ephemerists the plural of?
Ephemerists is the plural of ephemerist.

Words near ephemerists in the dictionary

  1. ephemerids
  2. ephemeris
  3. ephemeris time
  4. ephemerises
  5. ephemerist
  6. ephemerists
  7. ephemeroid
  8. ephemeroids
  9. ephemeron
  10. ephemerons
  11. ephemerophyte

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