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recurring in cycles

recurring in cycles

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

Pertaining to or contained in a cycle. Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and kept within one cycle of subjects, that of the Trojan war. Cyclic chorus, at Athens, one which sang and danced in a circle round the altar of Bacchus in performing the dithyrambic odes.

See cyclic.