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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cyclic \Cyc"lic\ (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyclical \Cyc"lic*al\ (s?k"l?-kal), a. [Cf. F. cycluque Gr kykliko`s, fr ky`klos See {Cycle}.] Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as cyclical time. --Coleridge. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cyclical adj : recurring in cycles [syn: {cyclic}] [ant: {noncyclic}]
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