| 单词 | bissextile day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbissextile day Containing the bissextus or extra day which the Julian calendar inserts in leap-year. bissextile day (= Latin bissextus dies; see above). ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [adjective] > of adjustments in calculating or measuring time > intercalary or added (of a day) bissextile1398 intercalar1582 intercalatory1610 intercalary1614 embolimaeal1677 embolimaear1677 embolismal1681 intercalarian1690 intercalate1690 embolismaean1705 embolimary1708 embolimaean1715 embolismic1736 epagomenic1839 intercalated1845 epagomenal1906 epagomenous1906 the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > adjustments in calculations > leap year > intercalary or extra day in bissext1398 leap day1600 epact1603 bissextile day1708 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. iii. 348 The Bisexte is gaderynge of eyghtene houres whyche comyth in thre yeres wyth syxe houres of the fourth yere to make a ful daye..and the yere Bisextilis hath that name. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xli. f. 169v The..bissextile or leape yeare, contayning 366. dayes. 1708 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth (ed. 2) ii. 157 The Julian Calendar..intercalates the Bissextile Day immediately after the Terminalia. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 140 In bissextile or leap-years. 1854 L. Tomlinson tr. D. F. J. Arago Pop. Lect. Astron. 189 Thus 1600 was bissextile, 1700 and 1800 were not so. < as lemmas |
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