civil year
Britishnoun
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As an illustration let us take the case of the supposed solar year of 365 days, and the civil year of 366.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
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 Albert R?ville
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 George Nichols Packer
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 George Nichols Packer
This made three days taken off the 400 years, and in consequence the mean value of the civil year is reduced to 365·2425 days, which is not far from the true tropical year.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
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