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Definition of Bissextile year
1. Noun. In the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years divisible by 400.
Definition of Bissextile year
1. Noun. a year with an extra day, a leap year ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bissextile Year
Literary usage of Bissextile year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1843)
"In the same bissextile year was held the solemn ceremony of piercing the ears of
the girls and young men, it being reserved for the high-priest to execute ..."
2. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"Hence it follows that in a bissextile year, the dominical letter changes, and
that the letter which marked a Sunday in the commencement of the year, ..."
3. The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology by Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Fenton John Anthony Hort, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1857)
"... the bissextile year is the 4m + 1st Julian year, it was always intended to
hold that place. I do not see that this is the necessary inference. ..."
4. The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology by Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Fenton John Anthony Hort, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1857)
"... the bissextile year is the 4m + 1st Julian year, it was always intended to
hold that place. I do not see that this is the necessary inference. ..."
5. The measures, weights, & moneys of all nations; and an analysis of the by Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse (1881)
"As an ordinary year contains 365 days or 52 weeks and 1 day over, and a bissextile
year contains 52 weeks and 2 days over, it is evident from the foregoing ..."
6. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1855)
"The terms of the Julian edict, by which the recurrence of the bissextile year
was defined, have not come down to our times; but it is certain that the ..."
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