cyclopedia
noun
an encyclopedia.
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
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
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
The former was a sort of cyclopaedia to him, which he supposed to contain an abstract of human knowledge, as indeed it does to a considerable extent.
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
