Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
encyclopedic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Encyclopedic.
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- adjective archaic
encyclopedic
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hence your encyclopediacal allusion to all knowables, and the virtues and vices of your panoramic pages.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Luke's version of the closing promise, in which 'the Holy Spirit' stands instead of Matthew's 'good things,' sets the whole matter in the true light; for that Spirit brings with Him all real good, and, while many of our desires have, for our own sakes, to be denied, we shall never hold up empty hands and have to let them fall still empty, if we desire that great encyclopediacal gift which our loving
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Bolus's genius for lying was encyclopediacal: it was what
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853
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Hence your encyclopediacal allusion to all knowables, and the virtues and vices of your panoramic pages.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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