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Definition of Intercalary
1. Adjective. Having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year:. "A leap year is an intercalary year"
Definition of Intercalary
1. a. 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,
Definition of Intercalary
1. Adjective. of a day: extra day or days inserted into a calendar ¹
2. Adjective. of a month: extra month inserted into a calendar. The Hebrew calendar has such a month. ¹
3. Adjective. (botany) of a meristem: situated between zones of permanent tissue, thus a shoot growing at the base of a leaf, in comparison with apical growth at the tip of a root or plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intercalary
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Intercalary
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1. 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.
2. Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." "This intercalary line . . . Is made the last of a triplet.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intercalary
Literary usage of Intercalary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... for by the addition of an intercalary month •every three years or so the
differences are roughly adjusted: this extra month is, however, ..."
2. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"ted the intercalary day every 1.30 years in the Sothic system, which we might
expect from the usual accuracy of their calculations, or were contented with ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... which, now that its original small duty is done, may as well be printed as
burnt: The Seven intercalary or Non-Hapsburg Kaisers. ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"I subjoin here, for refreshment of the reader's memory, a Synopsis, or bare
arithmetical List, of those intercalary Non-Hapsburg Kaisers, which, ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"I subjoin here, for refreshment of the reader's memory, a Synopsis, or bare
arithmetical List, of those intercalary Non-Hapsburg Kaisers, which, ..."
6. A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"The point, however, in question is, I think, sufficiently clear, — that the
intercalary day every fourth year was of Egyptian origin, and used by the ..."
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