civil year

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South Sudan is slowly emerging from a five year civil year that killed almost 400,000 people.

From Seattle Times

Next month, it expects to start work with a squad of 15 trained rats in Angola, where as many as six million land mines remain from a civil year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sebat, sē-bat′, n. the fifth month of the Jewish civil year, and the eleventh of the ecclesiastical year, falling in part of January and February.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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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.

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