civil year

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The civil year commences with the 1st of September; the ecclesiastical year sometimes with the 21st of March, sometimes with the 1st of April.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

Abib, ā′bib, n. the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical, the seventh of the civil year, later called Nisan, answering to parts of March and April.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

As an illustration let us take the case of the supposed solar year of 365 days, and the civil year of 366.

From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols

Appendix A. i—The civil year is that which is employed in chronology, and varies among different nations, both in respect of the seasons at which it commences and of its subdivisions.

From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols

Appendix D. Cæsar restored the coincidence of the solar and the civil year, but failed to retain it by allowing what probably appeared to him at the time a trifling error in his calendar.

From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols