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Definition of Bissextile day
1. Noun. The name of the day that is added during a leap year.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bissextile Day
Literary usage of Bissextile day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiastical Calendar: Its Theory and Contruction by Samuel Butcher (1877)
"A second bissextile day is omitted in 1800 ; a third in 1900 ; and in 2000 there
is no omission. ..."
2. Elements of Natural Philosophy (1807)
"out the bissextile-day in February at the en4 of every century of years not
divisible by 4 ; reckoning them only common years, as the 17th, 18th, ..."
3. Cambridge Antiquarian Communications (1881)
"Yet it is not certain that the author went to this depth into the matter; and
the most probable thing is that he forgot to count the bissextile day or days. ..."
4. Elements of Natural Philosophy: Arranged Under the Following Heads: Matter (1808)
"And that the same seasons might be kept to the same times of the year for the
future, to leave out the bissextile-day in February at the end'of every ..."
5. On a Runic Calendar Found in Lapland in 1866: Communicated to the Cambridge by Eiríkr Magnússon (1877)
"Yet it is not certain that the author went to this depth into the matter; and
the most probable thing is that he forgot to count the bissextile day or days. ..."
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