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encyclopedia, encyclopaedia

a book or set of books containing detailed knowledge and information about a variety of fxelds or subfields; an exhaustive work of learning 01 knowledge. Also called cyclopedia, cyclopaedia. — encyclopedist, encyclopaedist, n. — encyclopedie, encyclopaedic, encyclopedical, encyclopaedical, adj.

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Noun

encyclopaedia - 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

cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia

book of facts, reference book, reference work, reference - a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"

book of knowledge - an elementary encyclopedia dealing with general knowledge

Translations

مَوْسُوعَة

encyklopedie

encyklopædi

tietosanakirja

enciklopedija

百科事典

백과 사전

encyklopedi

สารานุกรม

ansiklopedi

bách khoa toàn thư

百科全书

encyclopaedia

encyclopedia [enˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə] N → enciclopedia f

encyclopaedia

→ مَوْسُوعَة encyklopedie encyklopædi Enzyklopädie εγκυκλοπαίδεια enciclopedia tietosanakirja encyclopédie enciklopedija enciclopedia 百科事典 백과 사전 encyclopedie leksikon encyklopedia enciclopédia энциклопедия encyklopedi สารานุกรม ansiklopedi bách khoa toàn thư 百科全书

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The four and six-penny manual, mostly in his lithographed handwriting, that was never vulgarly advertized, may perhaps some day be taken up by a syndicate and pushed upon the public as The Times pushed the Encyclopaedia Britannica; but until then it will certainly not prevail against Pitman.

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Certainly, more important operations than that have been performed,” observed Richard; “the encyclopaedia mentions much more incredible circumstances than that, as, I dare say, you know, Dr.

Certainly, there are incredible tales told in the encyclopaedias,” returned Elnathan, “though I cannot say that I have ever seen, myself, anything larger than a musket ball extracted.

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Judge Scott still held to the same opinion, and proved it to everybody's dissatisfaction by measurements and descriptions taken from the encyclopaedia and various works on natural history.

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And there's another fellow - Parry - an Australian, a statistician and a sporting encyclopaedia.

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I was fortunate enough, too, to become acquainted with a person in the publishing way, who was getting up an Encyclopaedia, and he set me to work; and, indeed' (glancing at his table), 'I am at work for him at this minute.

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Charley and I knew nothing of the oyster industry, while his head was an encyclopaedia of facts concerning it.

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His "Deipnosophistae" ("Dons at Dinner") is an encyclopaedia of miscellaneous topics in the form of a dialogue.

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The principle of selection I find distinctly given in an ancient Chinese encyclopaedia.

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The day before Rebecca started for the South with Miss Maxwell she was in the library with Emma Jane and Huldah, consulting dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

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But there is no literary public in England for anything except newspapers, primers, and encyclopaedias.

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Prof Dr Moulvi Muhammad Shafi was among those rare persons: a polymath known as the walking encyclopaedia of Islam.