civil year

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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 Blake, John F.

The civil year, which was doubtless of later origin, and had been adopted as better suited to the purposes of agriculture, was solar.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert

Tisri, tiz′ri, n. the first month of the Jewish civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, corresponding to part of September and October.

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

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

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