civil year
Britishnoun
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Again, let us suppose the civil year to consist of 364 days.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
Now this discrepancy of 18 hours for the next 100 years, will cause the civil year in 1800 to be 12 hours behind; again suppressing the intercalation it will be 12 hours in advance.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
A′dar, the twelfth month of the Hebrew sacred and sixth of the civil year, answering to part of February and part of March.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
Sebat, sē-bat′, n. the fifth month of the Jewish civil year, and the eleventh of the ecclesiastical year, falling in part of January and February.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
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