ephemerist noun3 •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 •One who keeps an ephemeris; a diarist. •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 Ephemerists — 1640 formsephemerists