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† inˈtercalar, a. Obs.
Also 6 -or, 7 -air.
[ad. L. intercalār-is: see intercalate. Cf. F. intercalaire (14th c. in Godef.).]
= intercalary 1.
1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. 93 They haue their day which they do call Intercalor, which is of 40 houres. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1292 Reputing the third of these intercalar daies to be desasterous and dismall. 1653H. Cogan Diod. Sic. 6 The Egyptians have five intercalair days. 1699Locke Let. to Sloane 2 Dec. in Fox Bourne Life (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. |