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Cyclical
{
Cyc′lic
(s?k′l?k or s?′kl?k)
, Cyc′lic-al
(s?k′l?-kal)
, } Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles;
as,
. cyclical
timeColeridge.
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.
Milman.