'Civil year' definitions:

Definition of 'civil year'

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noun
The year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar [syn: calendar year, civil year]

Definition of 'Civil year'

From: GCIDE
  • Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge['a]r; akin to OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend y[=a]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of
  • 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). [1913 Webster]
  • Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.
  • A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. {A month's mind}, under Month.
  • Bissextile year. See Bissextile.
  • Canicular year. See under Canicular.
  • Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time.
  • Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days.
  • Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year.
  • Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of
  • 13 lunar months, or 384 days.
  • Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.
  • Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic.
  • Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian.
  • Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary.
  • Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
  • Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar.
  • Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above.
  • Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical.
  • Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.
  • Tropical year. See under Tropical.
  • Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. --Abbott.
  • Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d. [1913 Webster] year 2000 bug

Definition of 'Civil year'

From: GCIDE
  • Civil \Civ"il\, a. [L. civilis, fr. civis citizen: cf. F. civil. See City.]
  • 1. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community. [1913 Webster]
  • England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but even the other day since England grew civil. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual. [1913 Webster]
  • Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven. --Preston [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: "A civil man now is one observant of slight external courtesies in the mutual intercourse between man and man; a civil man once was one who fulfilled all the duties and obligations flowing from his position as a 'civis' and his relations to the other members of that 'civitas.'" --Trench [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings. [1913 Webster]
  • Civil action, an action to enforce the rights or redress the wrongs of an individual, not involving a criminal proceeding.
  • Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval architecture, as private houses, palaces, churches, etc.
  • Civil death. (Law.) See under Death.
  • Civil engineering. See under Engineering.
  • Civil law. See under Law.
  • Civil list. See under List.
  • Civil remedy (Law), that given to a person injured, by action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution.
  • Civil service, all service rendered to and paid for by the state or nation other than that pertaining to naval or military affairs.
  • Civil service reform, the substitution of business principles and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office.
  • Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states.
  • Civil suit. Same as Civil action.
  • Civil war. See under War.
  • Civil year. See under Year. [1913 Webster]