civil year

British  

noun

1. another name for calendar year See year

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Example Sentences

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

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 Packer, George Nichols

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

The civil year, which was doubtless of later origin, and had been adopted as better suited to the purposes of agriculture, was solar.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert

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

Related Words

• fiscal year