Word Meanings - PROEMPTOSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The addition of a day to the lunar calendar. See Metemptosis.

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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,
• LUNAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations. 2. Resembling the moon; orbed. Dryden. 3. Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month. 4. Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• ADDITIONAL
  Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
• CALENDAR
  A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter. 3. An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a
• CALENDARIAL
  Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
• LUNARY
  Lunar. Fuller.
• ADDITIONARY
  Additional. Herbert.
• LUNARIAN
  An inhabitant of the moon.
• CALENDARY
  Calendarial.
• SEMILUNAR
  Shaped like a half moon. Semilunar bone , a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n. -- Semilunar, or Sigmoid, valves , the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the
• SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY
  Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are
• SURADDITION
  Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
• INTERLUNAR; INTERLUNARY
  Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible. Milton.
• PLENILUNARY
  Of or pertaining to the full moon. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBLUNARY
  Any worldly thing.
• SUPRALUNAR; SUPRALUNARY
  Beyond the moon; hence, very lofty.
• SEMILUNARY
  Semilunar.
• SUPERADDITION
  The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously. This superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot.
• HINDOO CALENDAR; HINDU CALENDAR
  A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur . The intercalary month has the name of the one which precedes it. The
• SUPERLUNAR; SUPERLUNARY
  Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary. The head that turns at superlunar things. Pope.
• MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR
  A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having
• HEBREW CALENDAR
  = Jewish calendar.