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Bissextile
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Bissextile
Matched in: Term Bissextile
Leap year
Bissextile a year containing 366 days every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year
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Leap-year
Leap-year, otherwise called bissextile [fr. bis and sextilis (dies)] from its introduction to make up the loss of the six hours by
February
introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa In common years this month contains twenty eight days in the bissextile or leap year it has twenty nine days
Metemptosis
prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years The opposite to this is the proemptosis or the addition of a day
Calendar
only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faulty, inasmuch
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