Crossword-Solution: BISSEXTILE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bissextile | n. | Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400. |
| Bissextile | a. | Pertaining to leap year. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “BISSEXTILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Containing an intercalary day, as February 29. | 1 answer |
| of or pertaining to the leap year | 1 answer |
| Leap year | 2 answers |
| DOUBLED 24th February year | 3 answers |
| YEAR containing the bis sextus dies or doubled 24th February | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BISSEXTILE (5)
Yet such was the prevalence of ancient superstition, that a whole day was voluntarily added to this dangerous interval, because it happened to be the intercalation of the Bissextile.
That these and other the horrors and dangers with which the said Bissextile, or Leap Year, threatens the gentlemen of England on every occasion of its periodical return, have been greatly aggravated and augmented by the terms of Her Majesty’s said Most Gracious communication, which have filled the heads of divers young ladies in this Realm with certain new ideas destructive to the peace of mankind, that never entered their imagination before.
Whether his Christian name was Benjamin, Bissextile (from his having been born in Leap Year), Bartholomew, or Bill.
The fourth year was denominated Bissextile, or leap year, because the sixth day before the calends, or first of March, was reckoned twice.
Every year that can be divided by four without a remainder is bissextile or leap year, with the exception that one leap year is cut off in the century.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1952).