civil year

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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

Tisri, tiz′ri, n. the first month of the Jewish civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, corresponding to part of September and October.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 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

This would indeed be the case if the mean value of the civil year of the Julian calendar was exactly equal to the tropical year.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

The civil year commences with the 1st of September; the ecclesiastical year sometimes with the 21st of March, sometimes with the 1st of April.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various