'[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.
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Intercalate
//ɪnˈtɜː.kəl.eɪt//
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Bulgarian
2 entries- вмъквам verb (insert an extra day into a calendar)
- внедрявам verb (insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 插层 verb (insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues)
French
1 entries- intercaler verb (insert an extra day into a calendar)
Spanish
3 entries- intercalar verb (insert an extra day into a calendar)
- intercalar verb (insert an extra month into a calendar)
- intercalar verb (insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues)
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At some unknown period, the five days, known to the present time by the names of the five Gathic hymns of Zarathushtra, were intercalated at the end of the twelfth month, to complete the three hundred and sixty-five days of the solar year.
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The Sages once overheard three shepherds discussing what weather is characteristic of Adar, and if that weather does not occur, it is not really Adar. As a result, the Sages intercalated the year and added Adar II.
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... the personal pronouns which form the terminations of the verb, or by an intercalated suffix, the nature and relation of its objects and its subject , and to distinguish whether the object be animate or inanimate, ...
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