civil year
Britishnoun
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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 George Nichols Packer
Appendix A. i—The civil year is that which is employed in chronology, and varies among different nations, both in respect of the seasons at which it commences and of its subdivisions.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
Year—If the civil year correspond with the solar the seasons of the year will always come at the same period.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
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 George Nichols Packer
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 John F. Blake
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