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Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..

Suppressing :: Suppressed (imp. & p. p.) of Suppres.

Undermirth :: Undermirth (n.) Suppressed or concealed mirth.

Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.

Abeyance :: Abeyance (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.

Sorbonist :: Sorbonist (n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789..

Suppressor :: Suppressive (a.) Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.

Beguard :: Beguard (n.) One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins..

Extinguishment :: Extinguishment (n.) The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection..

Suppression :: Suppression (n.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion..

Insuppressive :: Insuppressive (a.) Insuppressible.

Jesuitess :: "Jesuitess (n.) One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633..

Smother :: Smother (v. t.) Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure..

Underkeep :: Underkeep (v. t.) To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress..

Twitter :: Twitter (v. i.) To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.

Elison :: Elison (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together..

Suppression :: Suppressible (a.) That may be suppressed.

Stupor :: Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

Repeal :: Repeal (v. t.) To suppress; to repel.

Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of..

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