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Definition of Encyclopaedic
1. Adjective. Broad in scope or content. "Encyclopedic knowledge"
Definition of Encyclopaedic
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of encyclopedic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encyclopaedic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encyclopaedic
Literary usage of Encyclopaedic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1884)
"THE history of the encyclopaedic conception of human knowledge is a much more
interesting and important object of inquiry than a list of the various ..."
2. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1897)
"THE history of the encyclopaedic conception of human knowledge is a much more
interesting and important object of inquiry than a list of the various ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"With " Gross" and "Agnew" as encyclopaedic works, and "Ashhurst" and " Hamilton"
as digests, practitioners ought not to be at a loss to know what to do and ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"His heretical or impious doctrines are contained in a poem, unfinished but of
encyclopaedic compass,'Bitternesses,1 of which he lived to complete four books ..."
5. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"There is also the encyclopaedic work of M. Henri Cordier, ' Bibliotheca Sinica:
Dictionnaire Bibliographique des Ouvrages ..."
6. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"There is no other corrective for this defect but an encyclopaedic education, and
if unconnected, it compromises the efficiency of women in the Positive ..."
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