Ĕm’bo-lĭsm, n.

n. [Gr. ἐμβολισμός, from ἐμβάλλειν, to throw or put in, to insert, ἐμβόλισμα, any thing put in, ἐμβολή, insertion; Fr. embolisme. See EMBLEM.]

1Sense 1. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

2Sense 2. Intercalated time. Johnson.