civil year
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The civil year, which was doubtless of later origin, and had been adopted as better suited to the purposes of agriculture, was solar.
From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert
Since the Julian calendar was corrected by Gregory, in 1582, we have so intercalated as to retain, very nearly, the coincidence of the solar and the civil year.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
They too had cycles, but they arose from a very different cause; not from errors of reckoning in the civil year or the revolution of the earth, but from the variations of the weather.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
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
He not only made the correction, but he so reformed the calendar that the solar and the civil year are now made to coincide very nearly.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
