intercalatory

Updated: May 7, 2025

But this use of his composed words, even though he should be able to carry it through, would not complete his work; for it would be his duty to answer in some sort those who had gone before him, and in order to do this he must be able to insert, without any prearrangement of words or ideas, little intercalatory parts between those compact masses of argument with which he had been occupying himself for many laborious hours.

Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn: The Irish Member