NOUN
- 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
How To Use cyclopaedia In A Sentence
- They've updated a lot of the entries in the most recent edition of the encyclopaedia.
- The work of Celsus of the end of the first century B.C. is a Latin treatise, probably translated from Greek, and is the surviving medical volume of a complete cyclopaedia of knowledge. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
- Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon. com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo! Boing Boing
- Here's a paraphrase from memory of an instruction sheet that came with the main Swedish encyclopaedia back in the 90s. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- I examined the books they possessed, and found a small work on medicine, a small cyclopaedia, and a Portuguese dictionary, in which the definition of a “priest” seemed strange to a Protestant, namely, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
- At the end of the supposed bad publicity, “Lucian said that despite the mistakes, he still thought the encyclopaedia was the best reference book he knew.” Scripting News for 9/12/2006 « Scripting News Annex
- He had read vastly; his memory was a literary cyclopaedia. New Grub Street
- He was a walking encyclopaedia.
- In 1899 the Witmark brothers published The First Minstrel Encyclopaedia and The First Minstrel Catalogue, which “covered every want of the amateur quite as well as the mastodonic Sears, Roebuck catalogue covers the needs of its vast patronage.” A Renegade History of the United States
- However, the names or the nicknames of the authors, unlike print encyclopaedias, do not appear at the bottom of the articles.