Adjective : an encyclopedic memory. From Dictionary.com.
The old political education gave place to an 'encyclopaedic' education. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
They both have encyclopaedic knowledge of literature. From Wordnik.com. [Book reviews] Reference
His knowledge was encyclopaedic and he appeared to know everybody. From Wordnik.com. [Every living thing]
His knowledge and enthusiasm for poetry was encyclopaedic and catholic. From Wordnik.com. [Postcard from America: On the Road, Alan Ansen, part one : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction] Reference
The hall porter, with encyclopaedic memory, greeted him as an old friend. From Wordnik.com. [Ruined City]
But please don't expect me to be an encyclopaedic alternative to reuters. From Wordnik.com. [Exclusive: Newsnight "Revelations" Mr Crick Wrong] Reference
Two encyclopaedic treatises, dealing with philosophy, are often mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Both were travelers, translators, men of cranky but encyclopaedic learning. From Wordnik.com. [That Old Identity Game] Reference
And I sat back and marvelled secretly at this encyclopaedic-minded man, this. From Wordnik.com. [Local Color] Reference
His knowledge of food was encyclopaedic and he had a continuing love for restaurants. From Wordnik.com. [Egon Ronay, Britain's king of good food, dies at 94] Reference
But the encyclopaedic character of his researches left him in heart a simple Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
According to Georgie, Bill has "an encyclopaedic memory" of popular music from the year dot. From Wordnik.com. [Why the evergreen Georgie Fame is peerless] Reference
Time Space Map is an encyclopaedic atlas of historical events that anyone can add to or edit. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
He does have an encyclopaedic knowledge of constitutional law, and he is charismatic and verynice. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » UC Irvine Law School Foolishly Rescinds Offer of Dean Position to Erwin Chemerinsky Because of Fear of Offending Conservatives:] Reference
CP does seem to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of every Labour association up and down the country. From Wordnik.com. [Five Labour Councillors Defect to Ealing Southall Tories] Reference
Lamb had a relatively encyclopaedic knowledge and his view of the world was not trivially arrived at. From Wordnik.com. [LIA and MWP in Venezuela « Climate Audit] Reference
Then I stand corrected, and slightly awe-struck by your encyclopaedic knowledge of Liza Minelli song lyrics. From Wordnik.com. [Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is] Reference
In point of fact, humanistic education was far from universal or encyclopaedic in the sense of all-en - compassing. From Wordnik.com. [UNIVERSAL MAN] Reference
Movement for Democratic Change, said: "We have broken a record and this kind of arrogance is certainly encyclopaedic.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Again, I appreciate the painstaking work, the mammoth encyclopaedic detail that's gone into creating the Halo universe. From Wordnik.com. [Is it wrong not to love Halo?] Reference
One might except the French from all this, for they have an obsession for food items of a sometimes encyclopaedic nature. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-16] Reference
The problem was McCain, not Palin, no matter what Andrew Sullivan, with his vast, encyclopaedic knowledge of women, thinks. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
Revel, however, combines hard-biting prose with solid common sense, encyclopaedic knowledge, hard logic and devotion to fact. From Wordnik.com. [Spilling the Beans in Paris and London] Reference
He wrote an encyclopaedic work on agriculture, medicine, war, rhetoric, and philosophy, but only the section on medicine is extant. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
As a monument of his Arabic learning and his encyclopaedic knowledge of Eastern life this translation was his greatest achievement. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
He also had a strong interest in archaeology, especially Roman, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the archaeology of Hadrian's Wall. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
The representatives of Renaissance universality entertained no such systematic, metaphysical aim, nor was their learning encyclopaedic. From Wordnik.com. [UNIVERSAL MAN] Reference
It has not been the author's intention to provide an encyclopaedic collection of new conceptions in various fields of natural observation. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
This encyclopaedic industry would have left a commonplace man commonplace, and in the estimate of a great man's genius it takes rank merely as a characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
The task of the exact cataloguer is full of difficulty, constantly renewed, and demanding almost encyclopaedic knowledge, and incessant care of minute particulars. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
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