Definition of Lunarist

1. one who thinks the moon affects the weather [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunarist

lunar excursion module
lunar latitude
lunar module
lunar modules
lunar month
lunar occultation
lunar periodicity
lunar phase
lunar time period
lunar year
lunar years
lunare
lunarian
lunarians
lunaries
lunarist (current term)
lunarists
lunarlike
lunarnaut
lunarnauts
lunars
lunarscape
lunarscapes
lunary
lunas
lunate
lunate bone
lunate cerebral sulcus
lunate dislocation
lunate fissure

Literary usage of Lunarist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pleasures of Human Life: Investigated Cheerfully, Elucidated Satirically by John Britton (1807)
"... seems to have been something of a lunarist, says that our ancestors used to carve the courses of the moon on a square stick, or block of wood, ..."

2. Natural Law in Terrestrial Phenomena: A Study in the Causation of by William Digby (1902)
"... subject with some care ; seven years' investigation . . . converted me ; I have become a lunarist in spite of my prejudices and almost against my will. ..."

3. Symons's Meteorological Magazine (1904)
"... familiar to many of our readers as that of a lunarist whose " long distance " predictions of weather have not infrequently appeared in the public press. ..."

4. The Science of the Weather: In a Series of Letters and Essays (1867)
"In such grand disturbances as these, the lunarist and astro-meteorologist should endeavour to trace the influences of moon ..."

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