† spheristn.
Obsolete. rare.
An observer of the spheres.
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1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. iv. 438 Neyther do they call those characters, letters,..but rather ciphers, or remembraunces, as those be which the Spherists or Astronomers do vse.
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