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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HOUR , the twenty-

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FOURTH

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PART

part of a

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CIVIL

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day, the twelfth part of a natural day or

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NIGHT

night, a space of

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TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

time of sixty minutes' duration . The word is derived through the O . Fr. ure, ore, houre, mod. heure, from

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LAT

Lat. hora, Gr . 6pa,

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SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, time of day, hour (see

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CALENDAR

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