ephemerinous (efemerinus)

[ ephemeris (e-fem'e-ris), n.; pl. ephemerides (efe-mer'i-dez). [L. ephemeris, events by days; particularly, an almanac; a calendar: in this sense formerly sometimes with the plural as singular. [Obsolete or archaic.] He used to make unto himself an ephemeris or a journal, in which he used to write all such notable things as either he did see or hear each day that pa ed. Quoted in Bradford's Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. xix. That calendar or ephemerides , which he maketh of the diversities of times and seasons. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 8. Are you the sage master-steward, with a face like an old ephemerides? Beau, and Fl ., Scornful Lady, i. 2. 2. In astron., a table or a collection of tables or data showing the daily positions of the planets or heavenly bodies, or of any number of them; specifically, an astronomical almanac, exhibiting the places of the heavenly bodies throughout the year, and giving other information regarding them, for the use of the astronomer and navigator. The chief publications of this sort are the French "Con nai ance des Temps" (from 1679), the British "Nautical Almanack and Astronomical Ephemeris" (from 1766), the Berlin "A str ono misc hes Jahrbuch" (from 1776), and the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac (from 1855). By comparing these observations with an ephemeris computed from a former orbit, three normal places were found, the four observations made in May and June being neglected. Science, III. 401. 3. Anything lasting only for a day or for a very brief period; something that is ephemeral or transient; especially, a publication or periodical of only temporary interest or very short duration. [ ephemerist (e-fem'e-rist), n. -ist.] 1. One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets; an astrologer. art he night before he was discoursing of and slighting the that pry into the horoscope of nativities. 1963 churches of the Apocalypse, and as the residence and death place of St. John, after whom a modern village on the site is called Aiasuluk (that is, AΆγιος Θεόλογοs, the Holy Divine). It had the title of apostolic see, and its metropolitan had a rank nearly equal to that of patriarch, till overshadowed by the rise of the patriarchate of Constantinople. It was also the scene of a number of ecclesiastical councils, one of them ecumenical. Also Ephesine. - Ephesian Artemis. See Diana. - Ephesian or Ephesine Council, any one of the several church councils held at Ephesus, the earliest of which met in A. D. 196 to settle a dispute as to the time of keeping Easter; especially, the third general or ecumenical council, held at Ephesus A. D. 431, under the emperors Theodosius II. and Val ent in i an III., the most prominent member of which was St. Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria. It deposed Nestor i us, patriarch of Const an tinople, and condenined his teaching as to the person of Christ. (See Nestor i an ism.) It also decreed that no bishop should subject to himself any ecclesiastical province which had not from the beginning been under the authority of his predece ors, and that any province so subjected should be restored, and the original rights of each province always remain inviolate. - Ephesian or Ephesine Latrocinium, a Eutychian council which met at Ephesus A. D. 449. It claimed to be ecumenical, but all its acts were annulled at the Chalcedonian council, A. D. 451. See Latrocinium. Ephesian or Ephesine liturgies, Ephesine cla , family, or group (of liturgies), the group or cla to which the ancient liturgies of Gaul and Spain belong, and probably those of Britain also. The original or typical form represented by the various extant offices of this family is called the Ephesine liturgy. The connection of this type of of fice with Ephesus is a matter of inference. It is also sometimes called the liturgy of St. Paul or of St. John. See Gallican . II. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Ephesus: as, the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians . What man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great godde Diana? Acts xix, 35. 2t. A boon companion; a jolly fellow. P. Hen. What company? Page. Ephesians, my lord; of the old church. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2. Ephesine (ef'e-sin), a. [ Ἔφεσος , Ephesus, Howell. +-inel.] Same as Ephesian. 2. One who keeps an ephemeris; a diarist. [Archaic.] A fo il ephemerid.