encyclopaedic
- a variation of encyclopedic.
Example Sentences
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The 46-year-old has always watched an extraordinary amount of football, as demonstrated by his encyclopaedic references.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
Now we get an encyclopaedic analysis of every player's attribute, who he's married to and the names of all his children.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2021
Yes, he possessed a mild interest in fashion as a teen, he says, but he didn’t have an encyclopaedic knowledge of it.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2020
As for David Mitchell, with his bearded and bookish mien, it’s not hard to picture him as some sort of nerd-in-chief, earnestly urging his encyclopaedic knowledge on his people.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2019
And to that golden age belong also the great saint and preacher, Leander, who died in 603, and S. Isidore of Seville, the encyclopaedic writer, who died thirty-three years later.
From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden