civil year
Britishnoun
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They too had cycles, but they arose from a very different cause; not from errors of reckoning in the civil year or the revolution of the earth, but from the variations of the weather.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
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 Packer, George Nichols
From 6 hours in advance in 1700, the civil year falls back to 12 hours behind the solar in 1800, consequently they must coincide in 1733.
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
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
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