omission of day from calendar to correct lunar calendar
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• (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.
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Met`emp·to'sis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... beyond, after + ... a falling upon, from ... to fall in or upon; ... in + ... to fall.]
(Chron.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 1...
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metemptosis The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years. From Greek, 'after' and 'to fall'.
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