A year having one day (now Feb. 29) more than the common year; a bissextile year.
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"Leap Year" from the Oxford English Dictionary
Leap Year
A year having one day (now Feb. 29) more than the common year; a bissextile year.to make leap year of: (fig.) to pass over.
1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) IV. 199 at tyme Iulius amended e kalender, and fonde e cause of the lepe ere [L. rationem bisexti invenit]. 1481 CAXTON Myrr. II. xxxi. 127 Bysexte or lepe yere, whiche in iiij yere falleth ones. 1562 J. HEYWOOD Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 207 The next leape yere after wedding was first made. 1606 W. BIRNIE Kirk-Buriall (1833) 38 In civil entries to heritage, if it be for the better, men can make leap-yeare of their father and seeke farther uppe. 1704 HEARNE Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 3 That Year was called the Bissextile; and by us Leap-Year because one day of the Week is leaped over in the Observation of the Festivals. 1834 Nat. Philos., Astron. i. 44/1 (U.K.S.) The years 1600, 2000, 2400, would be leap years.
A year having one day (now Feb. 29) more than the common year; a bissextile year.
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