If a man 'will' make a book, professing to discuss a single question, an encyclopaedia, I cannot help it.
They can see the plate of the original in the encyclopaedia.
Turn to article 'Dropsy' (or what you will) in encyclopaedia.
By the way, I wonder whether in this old inn there is an encyclopaedia of some sort.
He and D'Alembert were the life and soul of the encyclopaedia.
If we can find something on our own shelves, a boy is sent with the book at once, even if he carries an encyclopaedia with him.
Every science must have its definite position in the encyclopaedia of all the sciences.
The philosophers of the encyclopaedia did not go so far, but they tended in this direction.
I distinctly remember that it was from his mouth that I first heard the word "encyclopaedia."
Like the Romance of the Rose again it is an encyclopaedia of the art of love.
see encyclopedia. The Latin spelling survives as a variant because many of the most prominent ones (e.g. Britannica) have Latin names.
1530s, "course of instruction," from Modern Latin encyclopaedia (c.1500), thought to be a false reading by Latin authors of Greek enkyklios paideia taken as "general education," but literally "training in a circle," i.e. the "circle" of arts and sciences, the essentials of a liberal education; from enkyklios "circular," also "general" (from en "in" + kyklos "circle") + paideia "education, child-rearing," from pais (genitive paidos) "child" (see pedo-).
Modern sense of "reference work arranged alphabetically" is from 1640s, often applied specifically to the French "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts, et des Métiers" (1751-65).
