cyclopedic

or cy·clo·pae·dic

[ sahy-kluh-pee-dik ]

adjective

1. like a cyclopedia in character or contents; broad and varied; exhaustive.

Other Words From

• cyclo·pedi·cal·ly cyclo·paedi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of cyclopedic¹

First recorded in 1835–45; aphetic variant of encyclopedic

Example Sentences

It certainly would have borne a striking likeness to a cyclopedic index of Europe's nineteenth-century celebrities; for it embraced such immortal names as De Musset, Sandeau, Balzac, Chopin, Carlyle, Prosper Merimee, Liszt, Dumas and many another.

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One volume. 12mo $2.00 Jules Verne's cyclopedic fancy this time finds scope for its vagaries in the Californian Eldorado, among the millionaires of absolutely limitless resources, who, the French romancer would have us believe, form a large class of the population around the Golden Gate.

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So far as the cyclopedic narrative of his life is concerned, it is intended to be fairly accurate; but Field's notion that he suddenly began to write verse very frequently in 1889 runs contrary to the record in Denver and Chicago from 1881 to 1888, inclusive.

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To each of these artists we owe a volume of considerable pretensions, and the "Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary," 1723, by the former, is positively a very entertaining and cyclopedic publication.

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Appl. states all new except small portion prev. pub. in Coordinator's cyclopedic Federal tax service, vol.

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