cyclopedic
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of cyclopedic
First recorded in 1835–45; aphetic variant of encyclopedic
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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
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 Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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 Hazlitt, William Carew
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