civil year
Britishnoun
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The civil year consisted in general of twelve months or lunations, but occasionally a thirteenth was added in order to preserve its correspondence with the solar year.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" 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
Chinese Chronology.—From the time of the emperor Yao, upwards of 2000 years B.C., the Chinese had two different years,—a civil year, which was regulated by the moon, and an astronomical year, which was solar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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
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
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