civil year

The adjustment of the solar year to correspond with the lunar year and of the two with the civil year dates from this period.

The civil year and the day must be regarded as commencing at the same instant.

Again, let us suppose the civil year to consist of 364 days.

For the civil year whereof the people took notice, did sometimes come short, and sometimes exceed the natural.

The civil year required thirteen days to be added at the end of every fifty-two years, so as to harmonize with the ritual year.