† intercalaradj.
Obsolete.
= intercalary adj. 1.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > [adjective] > of adjustments in calculating or measuring time > intercalary or added (of a day)
bissextile1398
intercalar1582
intercalatory1610
intercalary1614
embolimaeal1677
embolimaear1677
embolismal1681
intercalarian1690
intercalate1690
embolismaean1705
embolimary1708
embolimaean1715
embolismic1736
epagomenic1839
intercalated1845
epagomenal1906
epagomenous1906
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 93 They haue their day which they do call Intercalor, which is of 40 houres.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1292 Reputing the third of these intercalar daies to be desasterous and dismall.
1653 H. Cogan tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. 6 The Egyptians have five intercalair days.
1699 Locke Let. to Sloane 2 Dec. in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) II. xv. 477 The remedy which I offer is that the intercalar day should be omitted the next year, and so the ten next leap years following.
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