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365 days

noun
1.
A year that is not a leap year.  Synonym: common year.






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"365 days" Quotes from Famous Books



... duodecim..." says the Breviary. The year has twelve months, fifty-two weeks plus one day, or 365 days and almost six hours. But these six hours make up a day every four years, and this fourth year is ...
— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley

... As this lunar year, like that of the Greeks, was shorter than the solar year, it had been necessary to intercalate an additional month, of varying length, in every alternate year. Caesar adopted the more accurate Egyptian calendar of 365 days and instituted the system of leap years. His rearrangement made the year 11 minutes, 14 seconds too long. By 1582 A.D. this difference had amounted to nearly 10 days. Pope Gregory XIII modified the "Julian Calendar" by calling Oct. 5, 1582, Oct. ...
— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... representative system has enabled us to delegate authority to such an extent that people have felt themselves irresponsible for all government, except one day in the year, when they vote at the polls; we need, instead, a determination to govern 365 days in the year, and nothing short of this perpetual interest of the people will secure to them the rights of self-government. Even then it is necessary that every citizen shall vote ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar



Words linked to "365 days" :   yr, common year, year, twelvemonth



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