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Intercalary adj.

(Chron.) Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.

Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." "This intercalary line... is made the last of a triplet."

Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs.

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"Intercalary" Quotes from Famous Books

... indeed only by the force of circumstances and intermittently a pure philanthropist, and it is with the intercalary passages of less exalted humanity that we are here chiefly concerned. At times no doubt she did really come near to filling and fitting and becoming identical with that figure of the pure philanthropist which was ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... his own fate and fortune, though, indeed, he could hardly think of anything else. He was eager to be alone, that he might think, and was nearly broken-hearted when the second bottle of 34 made its appearance. Something, however, was arranged in those intercalary moments between the raising of the glasses. Mr. Prendergast said that he would write both to Owen Fitzgerald and to Mr. Somers; and it was agreed that Herbert should immediately return to Castle Richmond, merely giving his mother time to ...

— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope

... The Peruvians, Egyptians, and Chaldeans divided the year into twelve months, and the months into lesser divisions of weeks. Both inserted additional days, so as to give the year three hundred and sixty-five days. The Mexicans added five intercalary days; and the Egyptians, in the time of Amunoph I., had already the ...

— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

Words linked to "Intercalary" : additive