civil year

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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

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 Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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 Blake, John F.

Elul, ē′lul, n. the 12th month of the Jewish civil year, and 6th of the ecclesiastical.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

In the solar or civil year, each sign had its day, but as the computation of years passed by, each sign in due rotation ruled during one year.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia