Definition of "epicyclical" []

• Of or relating to an epicycle (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Round and round the bramble bush the students go, driven mad by The Bluebook's arcane, arbitrary rules and epicyclical structure."
• "But we can surely entertain its possibility if we drop two old ideas: the Augustinian nostrum that original sin is personal guilt—which the Magisterium, expressing itself through the CCC, has done cf. §404-405—and the long-popular, epicyclical alternative that a state of purely natural happiness is in store for infants who die unbaptized."
• "The moons, of those solar planets which have them, represent the epi-epicyclical orbits of the Ptolemaic theory."