cyclopedia
noun
an encyclopedia.
cyclopaedia
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a variation of
cyclopedia.
Example Sentences
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“Working too hard. You’d think he was writing a whole cyclopaedia instead of just one book.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
The sharp Bohemian, by playing at all trades, brushing against gentry of all sorts and scouring all neighborhoods, becomes at length a living cyclopaedia.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
We may all agree in lamenting that there are so many houses—even some of considerable social pretension—where you will not find a good atlas, a good dictionary, or a good cyclopaedia of reference.
From Studies in Literature by John Morley
Next to this very convenient subdivision of topics, the most striking merit of the new cyclopaedia is, perhaps, comprehensiveness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various
It contained neither historical, biographical, nor geographical articles, and was rather a collection of treatises on the principal arts and sciences than a cyclopaedia in the common acceptation of the term.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various
