civil year

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A′bib, the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year, corresponding to the latter part of March and the first of April.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

Adar, ā′dar, n. the twelfth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical, the sixth of the civil, year, corresponding to the later part of February and the first part of March.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

As an illustration let us take the case of the supposed solar year of 365 days, and the civil year of 366.

From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols

At the Roman. beginning of each civil year it was the duty of the consuls to vow to the gods games for the safety of the commonwealth, and the expenses were defrayed by the treasury.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

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.