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.
Not in vain had he mastered the encyclopedia from Safety-lamps to Stranglers.
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The Prime Minister had been running his own neural nanonics encyclopedia search.
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Currently, a single project, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia, dominates the wiki genre.
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Mr. Simon has written 87 books, including a nine-volume encyclopedia of gastronomy.
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What are you trying to find in your encyclopedia of criminal activity?
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What Charlie don't have in his pants pocket ain't in the 'cyclopedia.
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The magazines fulfil the same function; every one of them is a penny cyclopedia.
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But he soon found question after question to ask that the cyclopedia did not answer.
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From a cyclopedia learn the character of the political organization of Mexico and the Central American states.
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He would have liked to read all the books in the library-buthe started in on a cyclopedia.
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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.
Uso de encyclopædia en inglés
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The encyclopædia says they flourished between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries.
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There should be at least an atlas, a dictionary, and an encyclopædia.
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A marvelous encyclopædia of devious Secret Service facts, an ideal tutor.
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Most of you have or can have an encyclopædia at command.
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Any encyclopædia, good or bad, will set you on the trail.
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I'd rather have biceps like Knight's than be a walking encyclopædia!
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But the one thing I for ever fell back upon was an old encyclopædia.
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It is not the encyclopædia's fault that we came back.
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Quite different from the encyclopædia is another book of reference, "Poole's Index."
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You do not exist in order to honour literature by becoming an encyclopædia of literature.
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It is a vast encyclopædia of mediæval learning as concerning God, the Virgin, and the Elect.
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He is a veritable encyclopædia of the sea.
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Goodholme, T. S. Domestic encyclopædia of practical information.
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Thanks, Connie, you are a perfect walking encyclopædia.
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What do you think I am, anyhow-anencyclopædia?
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When we got to the house Amaryllis lugged out an encyclopædia and sought a word in it.