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bissextus

  • noun
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bissextus, gen. bissexte
The intercalary day of leap-year; also leap-year
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  • Sume preóstas secgað ꝥ bissextus cume þurh ꝥ,ꝥ Iosue ábæd æt Gode ꝥ seó sunne stód stille . . . Nis nǽfre þurh ꝥ bissextus . . . Bis is twuwa, sextus se syxta, bissextus twuwa syx, for þám wé cweðað on ðám geáre nú tódæg sexta kl. Martii, and eft on merigen sexta kl. Martii,

    • Lch. iii. 262, 7-18
    • .
  • Be rihte bissexte (bisexte, v. l.)

    de ratione bissexti,

    • Bd. 5, 23
    • ;
    • Sch. 698, 1
    • .
  • Þá tída maciað ǽfre ymbe ꝥ feórðe geár þone dæg and þá niht þe wé hátað bissextum,

    • Lch. iii. 246, 14
    • .
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[v.
N. E. D. bissext.
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v. bises.
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v.  bises.
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