cy·clo·pe·di·a

also cy·clo·pae·di·a (sī′klə-pē′dē-ə)

An encyclopedia.

cy′clo·pe′dic (-dĭk) adj.

cy′clo·pe′dist (-dĭst) n.

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cyclopedia, cyclopaedia

encyclopedia. — cyclopedist, cyclopaedist, n. — cyclopedic, cyclopaedic, adj.

cyclopaedia

n → Enzyklopädie f

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References in classic literature

'Clarel, a Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land' (1876), is a long mystical poem requiring, as some one has said, a dictionary, a cyclopaedia, and a copy of the Bible for its elucidation.

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unless, indeed, he took down a dusty row of volumes with gray-paper backs and dingy labels--the volumes of an old Cyclopaedia which he had never disturbed.

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The former was a sort of cyclopaedia to him, which he supposed to contain an abstract of human knowledge, as indeed it does to a considerable extent.

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(10.) See John Joseph Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States by the best American and European Authors, edited by John J.

The Mind-Based Etymology of 'Capitalism'

Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, a History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings.

Recovering Islands: Scotland, Ocean, and Archipelago in To the Lighthouse

Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia of American Literature (New York: Scribner, 1855); and Samuel L.

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE: THREE PREQUELS

E sugeria, assim como o editor de Cyclopaedia, que o vocabulo "e utilizado entre nos [...] para a mudanca produzida pela admissao do rei Guilherme e a rainha Maria" (JOHNSON 1755).

The emergency of the "modern" concept of revolution/ A emergencia do "moderno" conceito de revolucao

Unlike the imaginatively-restrained Murray, the writer elaborates on the significant religious ideas surrounding the rose of Jericho: ".the people of the East have attached the fable that the plant first blossomed at the moment when our Saviour was born" (The Penny Cyclopaedia 105).

A comparative history of resurrection plants

Countless eighteenth-century publications glorified the "art of fortification." Far from the first popular publication to gloss military terminology with the aid of a labeled diagram, the Cyclopaedia was merely the least specialized source for such content.

The novel and the bowling green: Toby Shandy's diagrammatic realism

(59.) See 'Tea Blights and Pests' in The Tea Cyclopaedia..

Bugs in the garden: Tea plantations and environmental constraints in eastern India (Assam), 1840-1910

A Certain Chinese Cyclopaedia...." is inspired by a fantastical encyclopedia from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.

Nature. The City of Tomorrow

The first quotation comes from Chambers' Cyclopaedia as found at the ARTFL server at the University of Chicago--http://artflsrv01.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin /philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:2364.

The maeftro di mufica, or quality control in the virtual library