R. Simai and R. Zadok went to intercalate the year in Lydda, and kept the Sabbath in Ono. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
"They intercalate the year upon three accounts; for the green year, for the fruit of the tree, and for Tekupha.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
As this lunar year, like that of the Greeks, was shorter than the solar year, it had been necessary to intercalate an additional month, of varying length, in every alternate year. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
"They do not appoint or determine concerning the new moons, nor do they intercalate the year any where but in the land of Israel: as it is said, The law shall go forth out of Sion.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
"A devout disciple learned the intercalation of the year before his master, three years and a half: he came, and intercalated for Galilee: but he could not intercalate for the south," that is, for Judea. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
We were enabled by aid of the labours of Prof. Sedgwick and Sir Roderick Murchison to intercalate, in 1838, the marine strata of the Devonian period, with their fossil shells, corals, and fish, between the Silurian and. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Sanhedrim do compute and observe if the vernal equinox will fall out on the sixteenth day of the month Nisan, or beyond that; then they intercalate that year, and they make that Nisan the second Adar; so that the Passover might happen at the time of new corn. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
It does not even appear that the length of the intercalary month was regulated by any certain principle, for a discretionary power was left with the pontiffs, to whom the care of the calendar was committed, to intercalate more or fewer days according as the year was found to differ more or less from the celestial motions. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Three hundred and fifty-five days had been called a year from the time of Numa Pompilius, but as that number did not correspond with the actual time of the revolution of the earth around the sun, it had been customary to intercalate a month, every second year, of twenty-two and twenty-three days alternately, and one day had also been added to make. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
The rule was to intercalate a day in every fourth year (quarto quoque anno). From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference
To prevent this it was customary at regular intervals to intercalate days or months. From Wordnik.com. [History of Astronomy] Reference
The present appears the fittest place in which to intercalate remarks concerning them. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
During DNA replication, these compounds can insert or intercalate between adjacent base pairs e.g. ethidium. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
But he was not born to live continually in outland parts, loving rather to intercalate fierce adventures between spells of home-keeping. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
In this case, the palaeontologist is called upon suddenly to intercalate about 800 species of Mollusca and Radiata, between the fauna of the Lower. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
"In addition, the ability of CMX157 to directly intercalate the envelope of HIV virions may lead to an important application as a topical microbicide.". From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA] Reference
Yes, intercalate, as in a variable insertion or addition because a 365-day year is not divisible by the exact number of the orbital periods of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [House on a hill] Reference
British corps between which the cavalry formed the connecting link, and finally to intercalate between these two corps a force equivalent to two army corps. From Wordnik.com. [World's War Events, Vol. I] Reference
And then my father would wisely and kindly, but wondrous slowly, erase three fourths of one's pet verses, and intercalate others that one saw were exquisite, but could not exactly see why. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
In order to record the number of processed rows to Windows Event Log, you should intercalate a logging attribute on the task to make sure that the number of processed rows is record the package runs each time. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
By this reformation, says Dion Cassius, all error was avoided except a very small one, and he adds, that to correct the accumulations of this error, it would only be necessary to intercalate one day in 1461 years. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference
To determine if medical students on a modern MBChB programme who did an optional intercalated degree with their peers who did not intercalate; in particular, to monitor performance in subsequent undergraduate degree exams. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
We were enabled by aid of the labours of Prof. Sedgwick and Sir Roderick Murchison, to intercalate, in 1838, the marine strata of the Devonian period, with their fossil shells, corals, and fish, between the Silurian and Carboniferous rocks. From Wordnik.com. [II. Uniformity Of Change] Reference
I could readily add a copious list of minor deposits, belonging to the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary series, which we have been called upon in like manner to intercalate in the course of the last quarter of a century into the chronological series previously known; but it would lead me into too long a digression. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Or if they observe that there is no new corn, and that the trees sprouted not when they were wont to sprout, then they intercalate the year, "&c. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Since it was not lawful to intercalate the year any where but in Judea, "a great many went to Lydda out of the school of the Rabbi" (Judah Haccodesh, viz. out of Galilee. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
&c. Nay, the traditional fathers suppose there may be frost and snow in the time of Passover, by that canon of theirs: "They do not intercalate the year either for snow or for frost.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
“No, my dear cousin, it was in bad taste to say the least of it, and it was equally impolitic to intercalate such a demonstration into the usual and appropriate exercises of the week. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Journals 02]]
"Seven elders came together to intercalate the year in the valley of Rimmon: -- namely, R. Meir, R. Juda, R. Jose, R. Simeon, R. Nehemiah, R. Lazar Ben Jacob, and R. Jochanan Sandelar.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
For, besides that in it was seated Jerusalem, the metropolis of the whole nation, and in Jerusalem stood the Temple, and in the Temple sat the Sanhedrim: -- this was also peculiar to it out of the Canons, that "it was not lawful to intercalate the year out of Judea, while they might do it in. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Here again I must intercalate. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
Or yet again she'd intercalate a touch. From Wordnik.com. [Toward the Gulf] Reference
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