Intercalate v. t. (past & past part. intercalated; pres. part. intercalating)
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(Chron.) To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar.
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To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular series of rocks. "Beds of fresh-water shells... are intercalated and interstratified with the shale."
... and had got it. Thereafter he had been with the privateers of Brest and La Rochelle, a hornet to search out and sting the weak places of Spain on the Main and among the islands. But he was not born to live continually in outland parts, loving rather to intercalate fierce adventures between spells of home-keeping. The love of his green Picardy manor drew him back with gentle hands. He had now returned like a child to his playthings, and the chief thoughts in his head were his gardens and fishponds, ... — The Path of the King • John Buchan
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