infuse vs intercalate

infuse

verb
  • To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate. 

  • To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with). 

  • To instill as a quality. 

  • To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal). 

  • To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill. 

  • To undergo infusion. 

intercalate

verb
  • To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues. 

  • To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The Hebrew calendar has such a month. 

  • To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena. 

  • To insert anything somewhere (especially between other things), such as an affix into a word. (Compare interpolate.) 

How often have the words infuse and intercalate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )