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Metemptosis

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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 2400 years

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