cyclopedic
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of cyclopedic
First recorded in 1835–45; aphetic variant of encyclopedic
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To each of these artists we owe a volume of considerable pretensions, and the "Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary," 1723, by the former, is positively a very entertaining and cyclopedic publication.
From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew Hazlitt
A catalogue of all the thoughts of the mind, and of all their possible modifications, is a cyclopedic history of the universe.
From A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Appl. states all new except small portion prev. pub. in Coordinator's cyclopedic Federal tax service, vol.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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