civil year
Britishnoun
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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
Had the intercalations been regularly made the concurrence of the solar and the civil year would have been preserved very nearly.
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
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
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
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