civil year
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Had the intercalations been regularly made the concurrence of the solar and the civil year would have been preserved very nearly.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
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 John F. Blake
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
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
It has already been stated that if the civil year correspond with the solar, the seasons of the year will always come at the same period.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
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