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  • verb Present participle of intercalate.

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Examples

  • The regulations of Caesar were not at first sufficiently understood; and the pontiffs, by intercalating every third year instead of every fourth, at the end of thirty-six years had intercalated twelve times, instead of nine.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • This is how this system arrived at an agreement between the solar and the lunar periods: 8 solar years containing 2922 days, while 8 lunar years only contain 2832 days, there was a difference of 90 days, for which Cleostratus compensated by intercalating 3 months of 30 days each, which were placed after the third, fifth and eighth year of the cycle.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • He had a clear vision of the constant movement of molecules in the living tissue, combining and recombining, of the organism taking in and intercalating molecules from outside from the food and rejecting molecules in the excretions,

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • We perceive only their relation in time and space, and it is our mind which raises a succession to the height of a causal connection, by intercalating between cause and effect something of what we ourselves feel when we voluntarily order the execution of a movement.

    The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884

  • So accustomed were they to this method of notation that the priests who had the control of the calendar, upset Julius Caesar's plan for intercalating a day once in

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

  • I have interrupted what I was about to say by intercalating this paragraph.

    Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • My experience may be worth something to a modest young writer, and so I have interrupted what I was about to say by intercalating this paragraph.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • The old practice of intercalating a month was of course dropped.

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • Thus, after intercalating in year one, they intercalated again in year four, instead of in year five.

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • The peer-reviewed paper describes the manner in which Curaxins act by intercalating in the minor groove of DNA, resulting in FACT trapping chromatin, thus making the cell deficient in this factor.

    unknown title 2011

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