civil year
Britishnoun
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Chinese Chronology.—From the time of the emperor Yao, upwards of 2000 years B.C., the Chinese had two different years,—a civil year, which was regulated by the moon, and an astronomical year, which was solar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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
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 Packer, George Nichols
Appendix D. Cæsar restored the coincidence of the solar and the civil year, but failed to retain it by allowing what probably appeared to him at the time a trifling error in his calendar.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
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