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adjective

Cyclical, Cyclic adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.

2.

(Chemistry) Having atoms bonded to form a ring structure. Opposite of acyclic. Note: Used most commonly in respect to organic compounds. Note: (Narrower terms: bicyclic; heterocyclic; homocyclic, isocyclic)

Synonyms: closed-chain, closed-ring.

3.

Recurring in cycles (2); having a pattern that repeats at approximately equal intervals; periodic. Opposite of noncyclic. Note: (Narrower terms: alternate(prenominal), alternating(prenominal); alternate(prenominal), every other(prenominal), every second(prenominal); alternating(prenominal), oscillating(prenominal); biyearly; circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity); circular; daily, diurnal; fortnightly, biweekly; hourly; midweek, midweekly; seasonal; semestral, semestrial; semiannual, biannual, biyearly; semiweekly, biweekly; weekly; annual, yearly; biennial; bimonthly, bimestrial; half-hourly; half-yearly; monthly; tertian, alternate(prenominal); triennial)

4.

Marked by repeated cycles (2).

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... arisen, the later poets forced many independent subjects to enter into the so-called cycle of the king (Charlemagne), or that of William of Orange, or that of Doon of Mayence. The second of these had, indeed, a genuine cyclic character: it told of the resistance of the south of France to the Mussulmans. The last cycle to develop was that of the Crusades. Certain poems or groups of poems may be distinguished as gestes of the provinces, including the Geste des Lorrains, that of ...

— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden

... my form during composition only through feeling." Every chord is the outcome of an emotion, the emotion aroused by the poem or idea which gives birth to the composition. Such antique things as the cyclic form or community of themes are not to be expected in Schoenberg's bright lexicon of anarchy. He boils down the classic form to one movement and, so it seemed to my hearing, he begins developing his idea as soon ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, 10 The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at ...

— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson

... the prophet is the wailing babe, Smites on their hearts—a cradle decks therein For Him they know not yet, the Bethlehem Babe. That claim thy fathers felt! Through Teuton woods (Dead Rome's historian saw what he records[25]), Moved forth of old in cyclic pilgrimage Thick-veiled, the sacred image of the Earth, All reverend Mother, crowned Humanity! Not war-steeds haled her car, but oxen meek; And, as it passed oppugnant bounds, the trump Ceased from its blare; the lance, the war-axe fell; Grey foes shook ...

— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere

... will take perhaps billions of years to reach. In short, in a few thousand years he approaches that type of evolution which ordinary humanity attains in the sixth or seventh Round of the Manvantara, i.e., cyclic progression. It is evident that an average man cannot become a MAHATMA in one life, or rather in one incarnation. Now those, who have studied the occult teachings concerning Devachan and our after-states, will remember that ...

— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

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