Usage examples (5)

• Later the Greeks called the liberal arts also “encyclic” arts.
• Urban himself addressed the usual encyclic letters, proclaiming his elevation, to all the prelates in Christendom.
• Yet Roman blood has flowed also; I saw how it stained the walls of the Vatican Gardens on the 30th of April -- the first anniversary of the appearance of Pius IX. 's too famous...
• On the 9th of August the cardinals at Anagni publicly declared, they announced in encyclic letters addressed to the faithful in all Christendom, that the election of...