civil year
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The civil year and the day must be regarded as commencing at the same instant.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
Many authors confound the year of Rome with the civil year, supposing them both to begin on the 1st of January.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
This made three days taken off the 400 years, and in consequence the mean value of the civil year is reduced to 365·2425 days, which is not far from the true tropical year.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
Elul, ē′lul, n. the 12th month of the Jewish civil year, and 6th of the ecclesiastical.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Appendix D. Cæsar restored the coincidence of the solar and the civil year, but failed to retain it by allowing what probably appeared to him at the time a trifling error in his calendar.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
