{ Cyc″lic (s?k″l?k or s?″kl?k), Cyc″lic‐al (s?k″l?–kal), } a. [Cf. F. cycluque, Gr. κυκλικόσ, fr. κύκλοσ 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.