civil year
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From close examination it will become evident that the solar and the civil year coincide twice every 400 years, though no account is made of it in computation.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
Abib, ā′bib, n. the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical, the seventh of the civil year, later called Nisan, answering to parts of March and April.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 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.
Had the intercalations been regularly made the concurrence of the solar and the civil year would have been preserved very nearly.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
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
