Lunarist

English

Noun

Lunarist (plural Lunarists)

1. Alternative form of lunarist
   • 1863 March, S. M. Saxby, The Nautical Magazine:

     I am at length happy to be able to record in the Nautical that the terra "Lunarist" is no longer one of reproach: — that henceforward one may speculate on the agency of the moon in causing what we call "weather" without meeting with that derisive sarcasm which, even from the mouth of well meaning friends, could only be a pang or a regret.

   • 1865, The Intellectual Observer, volume 6, page 105:

     Both the Lunarists and the Astrometeorologists appeal to certain cases in which the facts coincided with their predictions; but the latter, who are the most daring in their assertions, often think themselves right when other folks might consider them wrong.

   • 2017, Gordon Tripp, The Weathermen: Their Story:

     Furthermore, the “Lunarists” (not to be confused with the Lunar Society, a group of natural philosophers who met whenever there was a full moon), held that various conjunctions of the earth and the moon could give warning of oncoming bad weather.