Definition of Encyclopaedic

1. Adjective. Broad in scope or content. "Encyclopedic knowledge"

Exact synonyms: Encyclopedic
Similar to: Comprehensive

Definition of Encyclopaedic

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of encyclopedic) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Encyclopaedic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encyclopaedic

encurtained
encurtaining
encurtains
encyclic
encyclical
encyclical letter
encyclicals
encyclics
encyclopaedia
encyclopaediac
encyclopaediacal
encyclopaediae
encyclopaedial
encyclopaedian
encyclopaedias
encyclopaedic (current term)
encyclopaedical
encyclopaedicity
encyclopaedism
encyclopaedist
encyclopaedists
encyclopedia
encyclopediac
encyclopediacal
encyclopediae
encyclopedial
encyclopedialike
encyclopedian
encyclopedias
encyclopedic

Literary usage of Encyclopaedic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1884)
"THE history of the encyclopaedic conception of human knowledge is a much more interesting and important object of inquiry than a list of the various ..."

2. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1897)
"THE history of the encyclopaedic conception of human knowledge is a much more interesting and important object of inquiry than a list of the various ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"With " Gross" and "Agnew" as encyclopaedic works, and "Ashhurst" and " Hamilton" as digests, practitioners ought not to be at a loss to know what to do and ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"His heretical or impious doctrines are contained in a poem, unfinished but of encyclopaedic compass,'Bitternesses,1 of which he lived to complete four books ..."

5. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"There is also the encyclopaedic work of M. Henri Cordier, ' Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire Bibliographique des Ouvrages ..."

6. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"There is no other corrective for this defect but an encyclopaedic education, and if unconnected, it compromises the efficiency of women in the Positive ..."

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