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n. - 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.

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  • As Robert Douglas-Fairhurst notes in the superb introduction to this volume of selections, "London Labour and the London Poor" was "originally advertised as a...
  • He had read vastly; his memory was a literary cyclopaedia.
  • Guy's pocket cyclopaedia: Or Miscellany of useful knowledge, from the best authorities: designed for senior scholars in schools, by Joseph Guy
  • Or he would become a successful politician, which was easier than all, for nothing was needed in this career but strong lungs and a cyclopaedia.
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