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Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- cyclopaedist noun
- cyclopedic adjective
- cyclopedist noun
Etymology
Origin of cyclopedia
First recorded in 1630–40; by shortening
Example Sentences
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He is concerned, he says, to complete “a cyclopedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great metropolis”.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2017
"I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the cyclopedia on cards long advocated by Dr. Dewey, except that the cards are in its catalogue and do not contain the information directly but serve only as keys to it.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
The new Champlin cyclopedia for young folks, edited by Lincoln MacVeagh. © 27Oct24, A807635.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1952 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
It is a cyclopedia of inventions, in which one may be sure of finding described the best processes yet discovered for doing every thing that is to be done by means of mechanics.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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