civil year
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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
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.
Again, let us suppose the civil year to consist of 364 days.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
Larger Image By the Gregorian rule of intercalation the coincidence of the solar and civil year is restored very nearly every 400 years.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
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
