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UK
/ɛnsˌaɪkləʊpˈiːdɪk/
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[ US /ɪnˌsaɪkɫəˈpidɪk, ɪnˌsaɪkɫoʊˈpidɪk/ ]
[ US /ɪnˌsaɪkɫəˈpidɪk, ɪnˌsaɪkɫoʊˈpidɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia)
encyclopedic knowledge
How To Use encyclopedic In A Sentence
- But Frye's dreams of systematizing and co-ordinating a literary universe also rose to meet counterparts in Frances Yates's 1967 account of the zodiacs and theatres of the encyclopaedic memory systems of Bruno and Camillo.
- Moreover, recognising his encyclopaedic knowledge, academic journals often invited him to act as referee. Times, Sunday Times
- As a Catholic statement of missiology, it is almost encyclopedic in range.
- He threw back his head and laughed heartily, for his appetite for football gossip matched his encyclopedic knowledge on the game itself.
- That's him, sir," said Jimmy, long accustomed to Arnold Morgan's encyclopedic memory. BARRACUDA 945
- I was interested in leprosy, and upon that, as upon every other island subject, Kersdale had encyclopedic knowledge. Good-bye, Jack
- Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- On the one hand, Thompson does seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject domain, thanks in no small part to his willingness to talk to the media.
- With headlong glee, Koontz again unveils encyclopedic intelligence about how things work in the physical world and how to bolt sentences into the moonlight. Seize The Night: Summary and book reviews of Seize The Night by Dean Koontz.
- Quite obviously, no single reviewer is competent to judge the reliability of every bit of material to be found in this encyclopedic book.