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Intercalary

adjective
1.
Having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year:.  "A leap year is an intercalary year"



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"Intercalary" Quotes from Famous Books



... parts Caesar introduced every fourth year, so as to have the annual seasons no longer differ at all except in the slightest degree. In fourteen hundred and sixty-one years there is need of only one (additional) intercalary day.[94] ...
— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio


Words linked to "Intercalary" :   additive, intercalary year


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