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embolismalis

embolismalis, ~aris [LL] , pertaining to embolism, intercalary: a (w. ref. to year); b (w. ref. to cycle of common and embolismic years). a si tamen hoc spatium tibi sex et quinque dierum / crescis ter denis embōlismalibus annis (Ps.-Bede Hymn.) PL XCIV 620c; est ~aris annus qui habet dies trecentos octuaginta quinque sibi Byrht. Man. 18; annus ‥ ~alis, id est superexcrescens, qui ccclxxx dies excedit, habens xiij lunationes Gerv. Tilb. I 6; est embolismus excrementum anni solaris ad lunarem et dicitur ille annus ~alis in quo cadit et recolligitur una lunacio xxx dierum Bart. Angl. IX 4; hic annus habet xiij menses et dicitur ~alis, id est superexcrescens Bacon Tert. 219; Bradw. CD 141D (v. bissextilis).  b quando circulus ~alis adimpletur continens annos xij communes et vij embolismales Bart. Angl. IX 4.

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