The church festival of St Matthias was formerly observed on the 25th of February in bissextile years, but it is now invariably celebrated on the 24th.
In ordinary years it contains 28 days; but in bissextile or leap year, by the addition of the intercalary day, it consists of 29 days.
This rule of the bissextile year, Rome, which is destined to endure to the end of time, established with the aid of the heavenly Deity.
These are subtracted every hundred years by not taking as bissextile those secular years of which the radical is not divisible by four.
In a treatise published by Akerman, the opinion is expressed that the Indians, at the end of their cycle of 52 years, added a week of days in lieu of the bissextile days which had been neglected.
In the same bissextile year was held the solemn ceremony of piercing the ears of the girls and young men, it being reserved for the high-priest to execute that function, assisted by godfathers and godmothers.
For, on account of our intercalation of one day every bissextile year, the Mexican year receded, as compared with ours, one day every four years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bissextile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
