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2. An interval of time in which a certain
succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns
again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a
periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something
peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the
year.

Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the
medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty
years.

Burke.

3. An age; a long period of
time.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle
of Cathay.

Tennyson.

4. An orderly list for a given time; a
calendar. [Obs.]

We . . . present our gardeners with a complete
cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every
month of the year.

Evelyn.

5. The circle of subjects connected with
the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period
which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of
Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of
Charlemagne and his paladins.

6. (Bot.) One entire round in a
circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.


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