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cyclopedic

American  
[sahy-kluh-pee-dik] / ˌsaɪ kləˈpi dɪk /
Or cyclopaedic

adjective

  1. like a cyclopedia in character or contents; broad and varied; exhaustive.


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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

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

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