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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CALIPPIC
CALIPPIC
Ca
*
lip
"
pic,
a.
Defn:
Of
or
pertaining
to
Calippus,
an
Athenian
astronomer.
Calippic
period,
a
period
of
seventy-six
years,
proposed
by
Calippus,
as
an
improvement
on
the
Metonic
cycle,
since
the
694
days
of
the
Metonic
cycle
exceeded
19
years
by
about
a
quarter
of
a
day,
and
exceeded
235
lunations
by
something
more.
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