civil year
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The 18 hours gained the next 100 years restores the coincidence in the year 2000 and so on, the solar and the civil year being made to coincide very nearly every 400 years.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
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
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
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 Packer, George Nichols
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 Packer, George Nichols
