[L.; see EMBOLISM.]
1. Chronol. a. The excess of the solar year above the lunar year of twelve synodical months. b. Intercalation. Obs.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. iv. (1495), 348. Embolismus is encreasynge and excesse by the whyche the yere of the sunne passyth the yere of the mone.
1796. Hutton, Math. Dict., Embolismus … signifies intercalation.
2. In the Greek liturgy: A prayer inserted after the concluding petitions of the Lord’s Prayer.
1872. O. Shipley, Gloss. Eccl. Terms, 475. Said … after the embolismus at Easter-tide.
