1643. True Informer, 13. It was rather an Embryo of a Parliament, an Ephemeran of 20 dayes.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), II. li. 64. Me thought it was a strange opinion of our Aristotle to hold that the least of those small insected ephemerans should be more noble than the Sun, because it had a sensitive soul in it.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Fever, The Ephemeran Fever is so call’d, because it lasts but one Day.
