civil year
Britishnoun
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Hence, did the civil year always consist of 365 days, then the ecclesiastical year would always contain either 364 or 371 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
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
In the solar or civil year, each sign had its day, but as the computation of years passed by, each sign in due rotation ruled during one year.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
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