The civil year is, accordingly, three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes, forty-six seconds.

AB, the fifth month of the ecclesiastical and the eleventh of the civil year of the Jews.

In 1582, the civil year had got ten clear days the start of the solar year, and Pope Gregory XIII.

By his advice the lunar year was abolished, the civil year regulated entirely by the sun, and the Julian calendar introduced.

Ordinarily, therefore, the official year of a consul consisted of unequal portions of two civil years.