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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



... were probably acquainted with the length of the year as 365 days; there is even some evidence that they allowed an intercalary day every four years, by beginning the reckoning of the year ...
— The Annals of the Cakchiquels • Daniel G. Brinton


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