单词 | intercalary |
释义 | intercalaryadj. 1. a. 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 February 29) is required only once in 4 years; see bissextile adj. and n. and leap year n. ΘΚΠ 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 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. 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. a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) viii. 113 An..intercalary day between two months. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 180 Those, which were properly intercalary days..were devoted wholly to festivity and pastime. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xx. 427 An intercalary month of twenty-three days was inserted. 1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. 334 They..added to the 12 solar months of 30 days 5 intercalary days to make 365. b. Of a year: Having intercalated days or an additional month. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [adjective] > of adjustments in calculating or measuring time > of a year with additional month intercalary1648 1648 J. Lightfoot Handfull Gleanings Exod. 20 Every third yeare was leape yeare, or intercalary of a moneth added of 33 dayes, which was called Veadar. 1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 358 For Forty Years space there should be no Bissextile or intercalary Years, or as we call them Leap-years, inserted in the Calendar. 1876 Prayer-bk. Interleaved 69 The 54 weeks of an intercalary Jewish year. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > of the nature of a refrain intercalary1659 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cvii. Paraphr.) 543 Having a double burthen, or intercalary verse oft recurring. 1760 J. Beattie in tr. Virgil 8th Pastoral in Orig. Poems & Transl. 161 (note) This intercalary line (as it [is] called by the Commentators) which seems to be intended as a chorus or burden to the song. 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Prel. Diss. 32 The third line of the inter~calary stanza. 3. a. Of the nature of an insertion between the original or ordinary members of a series or parts of a whole; interpolated, intervening. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [adjective] > placed between interject1578 intersited1578 interposed1602 interplaced1603 interjecteda1619 entre-pressed1641 intercalary1798 interceptive1819 intercalated1849 interlaid1856 interpolated1875 in-between1898 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 27 489 We have now to mention two volumes of intercalary matter. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xiv. 192 Sigismund..seventh and last of the Intercalary Kaisers. 1882 R. Bithell Counting-house 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. 1888 H. R. Reynolds Expos. St. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > intercalary intercalary1846 the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [adjective] > intermediate osculant1819 intercalary1877 1846 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals i. iii. 67 But whatever modifications these dermal and intercalary spines present above, the same are usually repeated below. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 179 Internodes..formed at a later period by further differentiation and intercalary growth. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 166 That these ancient corals represent an intercalary type between the Hexacoralla and the Octocoralla. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 261 The bundles of the leaf-trace and intercalary bundles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1614 |
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