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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Met·emp·to·sis n.  Chron. 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.