civil day
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of civil day
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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But Plutarch, Pliny, Aulus Gellius, and Macrobius expressly say that the Roman civil day was reckoned from midnight to midnight.
From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas
And thus we conclude that all observance of canonical hours will be dispensed with; and that the great work of matrimonial registration will be practicable at any period of the civil day.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
The Romans called the time between the rising and setting sun, the natural day; and the time in the twenty-four hours, the civil day.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various
One of the objects of the third resolution is to make the new universal day coincide with the civil day rather than with the astronomical day.
Accordingly, the civil day, by which all the ordinary affairs of life are regulated, begins and ends at midnight, and has its middle or mid-day at noon.
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