civil year
Britishnoun
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At the Roman. beginning of each civil year it was the duty of the consuls to vow to the gods games for the safety of the commonwealth, and the expenses were defrayed by the treasury.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Many authors confound the year of Rome with the civil year, supposing them both to begin on the 1st of January.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
The intercalary day or 24 hours being suppressed in 1700, causes the civil year to be 6 hours in advance of the solar, and is represented on the chart 6 hours in advance.
From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer
Ab, ab, n. the eleventh month of the Jewish civil year, and the fifth of the ecclesiastical year, answering to parts of July and August.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
This would indeed be the case if the mean value of the civil year of the Julian calendar was exactly equal to the tropical year.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
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