rare. [f. LUNAR + -IST.] One who holds the ‘lunar’ theory of the causation of weather-changes.
1863. R. FitzRoy, Weather Bk., 213. In such grand disturbances as these [storms], the Lunarist and the Astro-meteorologist should endeavour to trace influences of moon and planets.
1864. Intell. Observ., No. 32. 105. The Lunarists and the Astro-meteorologists.
