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Origin of cyclopedia
First recorded in 1630–40; by shortening
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He is concerned, he says, to complete “a cyclopedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great metropolis”.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2017
"I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is generally supposed that cyclopedia articles are prepared by specialists who know what they are writing about.
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene
“Oh, no; this will be quite sufficient,” and taking out pencil and paper the inquirer began to write rapidly with the cyclopedia propped before her.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.
In Hart’s Manual of English Literature, one of Tennyson’s poems is named “The Vision of Art,” and a recent German cyclopedia makes him the author of “Tristam and Iseult.”
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene
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