, in Chronology, signifies intercalation. As the Greeks used the lunar year, which contains only 354 days, that they might bring it to the | solar year, of 365 days, they had an Embolism every two or three years, when they added a 13th lunar month.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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