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Cyc·lic Cyc·lic·al a.
1. Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.
Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject.
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cyclical
adj : recurring in cycles [syn: cyclic] [ant: noncyclic]