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metemptosis

CIDE DICTIONARY

metemptosisn. [NL., from Gr. beyond, after + a falling upon, fr. to fall in or upon; in + to fall.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]
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