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intercalary, a.|ɪnˈtɜːkələrɪ|
[ad. L. intercalāri-us or intercalāri-s, f. intercalāre to intercalate.]
1. Of a day, days, or month: Inserted at intervals in the calendar in order to bring an inexact reckoning of the year into harmony with the solar year.
In the Jewish, Greek and Roman calendars, intercalary days or months were necessary chiefly to adapt the lunar to the solar reckoning of time. Since the reform of the calendar by Julius Cæsar (b.c. 46), an intercalary day (now Feb. 29) is required only once in 4 years; see bissextile and leap-year.
1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. iii. §6. 255 Ve Adar was an intercalarie Moneth, added, some yeares, vnto the other twelue, to make the Solarie and Lunarie yeare agree. a1660Hammond 19 Serm. viii. Wks. 1684 IV. 607 An..intercalary day between two months. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 180 Those, which were properly intercalary days..were devoted wholly to festivity and pastime. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) II. xx. 407 An intercalary month of twenty-three days was inserted. 1881E. B. Tylor Anthropol. 334 They..added to the 12 solar months of 30 days 5 intercalary days to make 365.
absol.a1834Lamb Misc. Wks. (1871) 451 The inter⁓calaries and other subtle problems he will do well to omit.
b. Of a year: Having intercalated days or an additional month.
1648Lightfoot Glean. Ex. 20 Every third yeare was leape yeare, or intercalary of a moneth added of 33 dayes, which was called Veadar. 1699Phil. Trans. XXI. 358 For Forty Years space there should be no Bissextile or intercalary Years, or as we call them Leap-years, inserted in the Calendar. 1876Prayer-bk. Interleaved 69 The 54 weeks of an intercalary Jewish year.
†2. Of a line or stanza: Inserted at intervals in a composition; of the nature of a refrain. Obs.
1659Hammond On Ps. cvii. Paraphr. heading, Having a double burthen or intercalary verse oft recurring. 1778Lowth Isaiah Prel. Diss. 32 The third line of the inter⁓calary stanza. a1803Beattie Virg. Past. viii. note, This inter-calary line, (as it is called by the commentators,) which seems to be intended as a chorus or burden to the song.
3. Of the nature of an insertion between the original or ordinary members of a series or parts of a whole; interpolated, intervening.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVII. 489 We have now to mention two volumes of intercalary matter. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ii. xiv. (1872) I. 137 Sigismund..seventh and last of the Intercalary Kaisers. 1882Bithell Counting-Ho. Dict. (1893) 154 An Intercalary dividend is not distributed at any fixed date, and in this respect it differs from what is properly called an Interim dividend. 1888H. R. Reynolds Comm. John II. 147/2 The closing words of our Lord's public ministry, delayed by the intercalary remarks of the evangelist.
b. spec. in various sciences, as (a) of geological strata: Lying between the normal strata of the series; (b) of biological types: Intermediate in structure, but not transitional; (c) of vegetable growth: Of the nature of new parts inserted among the old.
1846Owen Anat. Vertebr. i. iii. 67 But whatever modifications these dermal and intercalary spines present above, the same are usually repeated below. 1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 179 Internodes..formed at a later period by further differentiation and intercalary growth. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iii. 166 That these ancient corals represent an intercalary type between the Hexacoralla and the Octocoralla. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 261 The bundles of the leaf-trace and intercalary bundles. |