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ephemerist (複数形 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: By T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], OCLC 987785018:

     the night immediately before he was discoursing of, and lighting the art of those foolish Astrologers, and Genethliacall Ephemerists