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Meanings of cyclopaedia in English
A reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty.
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An astonishing woman that; a cyclopaedia of the day's small talk.
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Practically, none of the cyclopaedia previously accessible in our language has now much value.
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He had read vastly; his memory was a literary cyclopaedia.
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Next to this very convenient subdivision of topics, the most striking merit of the new cyclopaedia is, perhaps, comprehensiveness.
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The sharp Bohemian, by playing at all trades, brushing against gentry of all sorts and scouring all neighborhoods, becomes at length a living cyclopaedia.
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Or he would become a successful politician, which was easier than all, for nothing was needed in this career but strong lungs and a cyclopaedia.
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So that man of learning, that marvellous prodigy, that walking cyclopaedia, Lord St. Eval, has absolutely deserted us, to bury himself in Italy or Switzerland.
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From a cyclopædia read the history of Australia as a convict colony.
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Hoyt, J. K. Cyclopædia of practical quotations, English, Latin, and modern foreign.
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Oddly, it has invented the Cyclopaedia for knowledge, the sausage for nutrition!
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Written for the Penny Cyclopaedia, and published previously as a book in 1834.
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Consult an English history or a cyclopædia and learn about the opium war.
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Cyclopædia of political science, political economy, and political history of the United States.
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From a cyclopædia read the following topics: The opium war, Commodore Perry's expedition.
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Champlin, J. D. jr. Young folks' cyclopædia of persons and places.
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Excerpts from the Cyclopaedia illustrative of the lives of businessmen of that era.
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Translations for cyclopaedia
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Cyclopaedia through the time