Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-TER'CA-LAR, or IN-TER'CA-LA-RY
IN-TER-BAS-TA'TIONIN'TER-CAL-ATE
IN-TER'CA-LAR, or IN-TER'CA-LA-RY, a. [Fr. intercalaire; L. intercalarius; inter and calo, to call or proclaim.]
Inserted; an epithet given to the odd day inserted in leap-year. The twenty-ninth of February in leap-year is called the intercalary day. We read in Livy of an intercalary month.
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