† intercalev.
Obsolete.
= intercalate v.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > reckon or measure time [verb (transitive)] > insert extra days or intercalate
interpone1523
intercalender1590
intercale1613
intercalate1614
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [verb (transitive)] > insert between members of a series
intercalate1824
intercale1826
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. iv. 102 [They] were constrained everie second or third yeare to intercale, or adde, as in Leape-yeare one moneth of 22 dayes.
a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 76 The Greeks..varied the manner of intercaling the three months in the Octaeteris.
1826 H. D. Best Four Years France 320 They intercale, after the wheat..a crop of haricots or French beans.
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