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  • bissextus

    February 29th: the extra day added to the Julian calendar every fourth year (except those evenly divisible by 400, a rule introduced by the Gregorian calendar) to compensate for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year of 365 days falls short of the solar year.

  • canonical hour

    one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law

  • little hours

    the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office

  • sextan

    (of a fever) characterized by paroxysms that recurevery sixth day.

  • sextant

    an astronomical instrument used to determine latitude and longitude at sea by measuring angular distances, especially the altitudes of sun, moon, and stars.

  • sextic

    of the sixth degree.
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