of Embolus
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1. Embolismic.
1. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity. The Greeks made use of the lunar year of 354 days, and to adjust it to the solar year of 365, they added a lunar month every second or third year, which additional month they called embolimaeus.
2. Intercalated time.
1. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.
2. Intercalated time.
1. Pertaining to intercalation; intercalated; inserted.
2. The embolismal months are either natural or civil.
Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.
Alt. of Embolismatical
1. Intercalated; inserted.
2. Twelve lunations form a common year; and thirteen, the embolismic year.
Alt. of Embolismical
Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.
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