cyclopaedia
- 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
It is a question comprehensive of dollars and cents,—also of bones and sinews, of muscles, nerves, and brains, of headache, heartache, and the cyclopaedia of being, doing, and enduring.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
An astonishing woman that; a cyclopaedia of the day's small talk.
From New Grub Street by Gissing, George
If I had a cyclopaedia here I could turn to that memorable case, and satisfy nearly anybody that the hunger for the sudden dollar is no more "American" than it is French.
From Essays on Paul Bourget by Twain, Mark
Most of the questions were put by Trevannion, while the answers were given by the Mundurucú, whose memory, age, and experience made him a comprehensive cyclopaedia of alligator lore.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne
