ephemerisn.

/ɪˈfɛmərɪs/

Forms: Plural ephemerides

/ɛfɪˈmɛrɪdiːz/, formerly often used as a singular

Etymology: < modern Latin ephēmeris, < Greek ἐϕημερίς diary, calendar, < ἐϕήμερος daily: see ephemera n.²

†1.

a. A record of daily occurrences; a diary, journal. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun]

memorial1553

journal1565

daybook1571

diary1581

diurnal1589

journal-book1603

diet-book1624

ephemerisa1631

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 369 God..sees their sins..and in his Ephemerides, his journals, he writes them downe.

1635 W. Lambarde & T. Lambarde Archeion (new ed.) 168 The Bookes of Entries kept there; which is a true Ephemeris or Iournall of the Acts of the Court.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 22 Register not only strange but merciful occurrences: Let Ephemerides not Olympiads, give thee account of his mercies.

b. plural for singular.

ΚΠ

1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. 93 His written Oracles..an absolute Ephemerides of all things that had bin since the first moment of Time.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. iv. 371 Having kept an exact Ephemerides of all actions for more then five thousand years together.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico x. 16 Set downe in a Diary (or Ephemerides).

a. A table showing the predicted (rarely the observed) positions of a heavenly body for every day during a given period. †Also, in plural the tabulated positions (of a heavenly body) for a series of successive days.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars > table-almanac

ephemeris1556

table-almanac1621

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 283 Many eclipses of the sonne and moone also are not noted in the common Ephemerides and Almanachs.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 188 Among the Babylonians there were found Ephemerides containing the obseruation of the stars, for 720 yeares.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 3 The Ephemerides of the Comet.

1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 688 Tables of the Motion of the Satellits of Jupiter, with an Ephemeris of the same for this present Year.

1874 Moseley's Lect. Astron. (new ed.) lxxxviii. 232 The Nautical Almanac for 1835 contained ephemerides of two of them.

1880 Academy No. 440. 262 The following ephemeris..will be serviceable in searching for the comet.

†b. plural. As the title of a collection of such tables. Often used as singular = 3a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars

Gregorian Calendarc1275

Julian Calendarc1275

fastia1387

almanacc1392

prognostication1486

shepherd's calendar1506

ephemeris1559

perpetual almanac?1566

perpetual calendar1577

ephemeris1647

primstaff1662

rim-stock1662

parapegma1671

Poor Robin1708

menologium1709

menologion1727

rune-staff1753

Liberian Calendar1754

parapegm1755

timetable1758

prognosticator1779

Hindu calendar1795

Moore's Almanac1806

Moorea1821

numeral1853

Advent calendar1867

paddywhack almanac1875

paddy1876

Islamic calendar1912

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 95 I find in an Ephemerides the sonne to be in the firste Digree of Aries.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. xxviii. f. 35 An example vsed by Stadius in the 115 page of his Ephemerides.

1618 G. Wither Wither's Motto in Juvenilia (1633) 543 Be slaves unto an Ephemerides.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. xi. 241 You may [know] by an Ephemerides, at what houre an Eclipse shall happen.

figurative.1680 W. de Britaine Humane Prudence xxix. 94 You must be careful to keep an Ephemerides to know how the great Orbes of the Court move.

a. A book in which the places of the heavenly bodies and other astronomical matters are tabulated in advance for each day of a certain period; an astronomical almanac.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars

Gregorian Calendarc1275

Julian Calendarc1275

fastia1387

almanacc1392

prognostication1486

shepherd's calendar1506

ephemeris1559

perpetual almanac?1566

perpetual calendar1577

ephemeris1647

primstaff1662

rim-stock1662

parapegma1671

Poor Robin1708

menologium1709

menologion1727

rune-staff1753

Liberian Calendar1754

parapegm1755

timetable1758

prognosticator1779

Hindu calendar1795

Moore's Almanac1806

Moorea1821

numeral1853

Advent calendar1867

paddywhack almanac1875

paddy1876

Islamic calendar1912

1647 Almanak for 1386, Astron. App. (1812) 61 An ephemeris..is a book giving the true places of the planets.

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (at cited word) The Nautical Almanac, or Astronomical Ephemeris, published in England by the Board of Longitude..which commenced with the year 1767.

1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy v. 204 The equation of time is calculated and inserted in ephemerides for every day of the year.

1874 Moseley's Lect. Astron. (new ed.) xlv. 147 These quantities..are stated..in the tables of the Nautical Almanac, and other ephemerides.

b. ephemeris time n. a uniform time scale used in astronomy, defined in terms of the orbital motions of the moon and planets and taking as the fundamental unit the ephemeris second n. equal to a certain fraction of the tropical year 1900 (see quot. 1966).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > systems of reckoning time of day

time1646

apparent time1694

local timea1703

Greenwich Mean Time1782

sun time1837

GMT1840

railway time1847

railroad time1849

Greenwich time1861

Eastern time1878

Pacific time1880

Universal Time1882

Eastern Standard Time1883

Mountain time1883

British Standard Time1908

daylight saving1908

zone time1908

LMT1909

British Summer Time1916

summertime1916

U.T.1929

B.S.T.1930

EST1935

British Double Summer Time1941

war time1942

B.D.S.T.1943

ephemeris time1950

1950 Colloques Internat. du C.N.R.S. XXV. Constantes Fondamentales de l'Astronomie..129 The Conference recommends that, in all cases where the mean solar second is unsatisfactory as a unit of time by reason of its variability, the unit adopted should be the sidereal year at 1900.0; that the time reckoned in these unit [sic] be designated Ephemeris Time.

1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) iii. 78 The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and the British Astronomical Ephemeris..tabulate the fundamental positions of the sun, moon, and planets at intervals of ephemeris time.

1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) iii. 78 In the present century, ephemeris time has been gaining on universal time and in 1960 was ahead by 35 seconds.

1966 G. W. C. Kaye & T. H. Laby Tables Physical & Chem. Constants (ed. 13) 8 Since 1956 the ephemeris second, defined as the fraction 1/31 556 925.974 7 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12^h ET, has been adopted as the fundamental invariable unit of time by the International Committee of Weights and Measures.

†4.

a. In wider sense: An almanac or calendar of any kind; in early use esp. one containing astrological or meteorological predictions for each day of the period embraced; also, a calendar of saints' days. Also plural in same sense, sometimes used as singular. Obsolete.In bibliographical works (e.g. in the Brit. Mus. Cat.), ‘Ephemerides’ is still used as a general heading for Almanacs, Calendars, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun]

calendarc1340

calends1470

reckoningc1480

compute1483

compost1535

ephemeris1597

computus1675

year count1894

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. vii. 43 Why can his tell-troth Ephemerides Teach him the weathers state so long beforne.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. A3 That Kalendar or Ephemerides, which he maketh of the diuersities of times and seasons for all actions and purposes.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. vi. sig. K3^v Cures Plague, Piles, and Poxe, by the Ephemerides .

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 39 He..wrote an Ephemeris of the Irish Saints.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 45 Several Ephemerides or Almanacks are annually published.

figurative.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccclii, in Poems (1878) IV. 89 Hee who had read the Ephemerides Of Fate; and could repeat his owne, by roat.a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 107 I think this can hardly have escaped the writers of political ephemerides for any month or year.

†b. plural. The appointed daily order of religious services. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > instance or form of > plural or collective

orgiac1487

common prayer1493

sacre1542

obsequy?1550

orgy1597

ritual1611

holies1613

Dagonals1614

sacred1624

agenda1637

ephemeris1650

officials1659

religion1667

1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes 117 How their ephemerides for divine services should be performed.

5. = ephemera n.² 1, 2.

ΚΠ

1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 165 The beamlike ephemeris Whose path is the lightning's.

1841 R. W. Emerson Self-reliance in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 60 Honour is venerable to us, because it is no ephemeris.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ephemeris
释义	ephemerisn. /ɪˈfɛmərɪs/ Forms: Plural ephemerides /ɛfɪˈmɛrɪdiːz/, formerly often used as a singular Etymology: < modern Latin ephēmeris, < Greek ἐϕημερίς diary, calendar, < ἐϕήμερος daily: see ephemera n.² †1. a. A record of daily occurrences; a diary, journal. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] memorial1553 journal1565 daybook1571 diary1581 diurnal1589 journal-book1603 diet-book1624 ephemerisa1631 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 369 God..sees their sins..and in his Ephemerides, his journals, he writes them downe. 1635 W. Lambarde & T. Lambarde Archeion (new ed.) 168 The Bookes of Entries kept there; which is a true Ephemeris or Iournall of the Acts of the Court. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 22 Register not only strange but merciful occurrences: Let Ephemerides not Olympiads, give thee account of his mercies. b. plural for singular. ΚΠ 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. 93 His written Oracles..an absolute Ephemerides of all things that had bin since the first moment of Time. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. iv. 371 Having kept an exact Ephemerides of all actions for more then five thousand years together. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico x. 16 Set downe in a Diary (or Ephemerides). 2. a. A table showing the predicted (rarely the observed) positions of a heavenly body for every day during a given period. †Also, in plural the tabulated positions (of a heavenly body) for a series of successive days. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars > table-almanac ephemeris1556 table-almanac1621 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 283 Many eclipses of the sonne and moone also are not noted in the common Ephemerides and Almanachs. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 188 Among the Babylonians there were found Ephemerides containing the obseruation of the stars, for 720 yeares. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 3 The Ephemerides of the Comet. 1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 688 Tables of the Motion of the Satellits of Jupiter, with an Ephemeris of the same for this present Year. 1874 Moseley's Lect. Astron. (new ed.) lxxxviii. 232 The Nautical Almanac for 1835 contained ephemerides of two of them. 1880 Academy No. 440. 262 The following ephemeris..will be serviceable in searching for the comet. †b. plural. As the title of a collection of such tables. Often used as singular = 3a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars Gregorian Calendarc1275 Julian Calendarc1275 fastia1387 almanacc1392 prognostication1486 shepherd's calendar1506 ephemeris1559 perpetual almanac?1566 perpetual calendar1577 ephemeris1647 primstaff1662 rim-stock1662 parapegma1671 Poor Robin1708 menologium1709 menologion1727 rune-staff1753 Liberian Calendar1754 parapegm1755 timetable1758 prognosticator1779 Hindu calendar1795 Moore's Almanac1806 Moorea1821 numeral1853 Advent calendar1867 paddywhack almanac1875 paddy1876 Islamic calendar1912 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 95 I find in an Ephemerides the sonne to be in the firste Digree of Aries. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. xxviii. f. 35 An example vsed by Stadius in the 115 page of his Ephemerides. 1618 G. Wither Wither's Motto in Juvenilia (1633) 543 Be slaves unto an Ephemerides. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. xi. 241 You may [know] by an Ephemerides, at what houre an Eclipse shall happen. figurative.1680 W. de Britaine Humane Prudence xxix. 94 You must be careful to keep an Ephemerides to know how the great Orbes of the Court move. 3. a. A book in which the places of the heavenly bodies and other astronomical matters are tabulated in advance for each day of a certain period; an astronomical almanac. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars Gregorian Calendarc1275 Julian Calendarc1275 fastia1387 almanacc1392 prognostication1486 shepherd's calendar1506 ephemeris1559 perpetual almanac?1566 perpetual calendar1577 ephemeris1647 primstaff1662 rim-stock1662 parapegma1671 Poor Robin1708 menologium1709 menologion1727 rune-staff1753 Liberian Calendar1754 parapegm1755 timetable1758 prognosticator1779 Hindu calendar1795 Moore's Almanac1806 Moorea1821 numeral1853 Advent calendar1867 paddywhack almanac1875 paddy1876 Islamic calendar1912 1647 Almanak for 1386, Astron. App. (1812) 61 An ephemeris..is a book giving the true places of the planets. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (at cited word) The Nautical Almanac, or Astronomical Ephemeris, published in England by the Board of Longitude..which commenced with the year 1767. 1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy v. 204 The equation of time is calculated and inserted in ephemerides for every day of the year. 1874 Moseley's Lect. Astron. (new ed.) xlv. 147 These quantities..are stated..in the tables of the Nautical Almanac, and other ephemerides. b. ephemeris time n. a uniform time scale used in astronomy, defined in terms of the orbital motions of the moon and planets and taking as the fundamental unit the ephemeris second n. equal to a certain fraction of the tropical year 1900 (see quot. 1966). ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > systems of reckoning time of day time1646 apparent time1694 local timea1703 Greenwich Mean Time1782 sun time1837 GMT1840 railway time1847 railroad time1849 Greenwich time1861 Eastern time1878 Pacific time1880 Universal Time1882 Eastern Standard Time1883 Mountain time1883 British Standard Time1908 daylight saving1908 zone time1908 LMT1909 British Summer Time1916 summertime1916 U.T.1929 B.S.T.1930 EST1935 British Double Summer Time1941 war time1942 B.D.S.T.1943 ephemeris time1950 1950 Colloques Internat. du C.N.R.S. XXV. Constantes Fondamentales de l'Astronomie..129 The Conference recommends that, in all cases where the mean solar second is unsatisfactory as a unit of time by reason of its variability, the unit adopted should be the sidereal year at 1900.0; that the time reckoned in these unit [sic] be designated Ephemeris Time. 1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) iii. 78 The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and the British Astronomical Ephemeris..tabulate the fundamental positions of the sun, moon, and planets at intervals of ephemeris time. 1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) iii. 78 In the present century, ephemeris time has been gaining on universal time and in 1960 was ahead by 35 seconds. 1966 G. W. C. Kaye & T. H. Laby Tables Physical & Chem. Constants (ed. 13) 8 Since 1956 the ephemeris second, defined as the fraction 1/31 556 925.974 7 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12^h ET, has been adopted as the fundamental invariable unit of time by the International Committee of Weights and Measures. †4. a. In wider sense: An almanac or calendar of any kind; in early use esp. one containing astrological or meteorological predictions for each day of the period embraced; also, a calendar of saints' days. Also plural in same sense, sometimes used as singular. Obsolete.In bibliographical works (e.g. in the Brit. Mus. Cat.), ‘Ephemerides’ is still used as a general heading for Almanacs, Calendars, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] calendarc1340 calends1470 reckoningc1480 compute1483 compost1535 ephemeris1597 computus1675 year count1894 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. vii. 43 Why can his tell-troth Ephemerides Teach him the weathers state so long beforne. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. A3 That Kalendar or Ephemerides, which he maketh of the diuersities of times and seasons for all actions and purposes. View more context for this quotation 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. vi. sig. K3^v Cures Plague, Piles, and Poxe, by the Ephemerides . View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 39 He..wrote an Ephemeris of the Irish Saints. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 45 Several Ephemerides or Almanacks are annually published. figurative.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccclii, in Poems (1878) IV. 89 Hee who had read the Ephemerides Of Fate; and could repeat his owne, by roat.a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 107 I think this can hardly have escaped the writers of political ephemerides for any month or year. †b. plural. The appointed daily order of religious services. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > instance or form of > plural or collective orgiac1487 common prayer1493 sacre1542 obsequy?1550 orgy1597 ritual1611 holies1613 Dagonals1614 sacred1624 agenda1637 ephemeris1650 officials1659 religion1667 1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes 117 How their ephemerides for divine services should be performed. 5. = ephemera n.² 1, 2. ΚΠ 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 165 The beamlike ephemeris Whose path is the lightning's. 1841 R. W. Emerson Self-reliance in Ess. 1st Ser. 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