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He is concerned, he says, to complete “a cyclopedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great metropolis”.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2017

"I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence.

From Time Magazine Archive

This cyclopedia, M. Hervey, a French scholar, whose knowledge of the Eastern languages is accompanied by an equally profound love of farming, has undertaken to translate entire.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

It is the cyclopedia on cards long advocated by Dr. Dewey, except that the cards are in its catalogue and do not contain the information directly but serve only as keys to it.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

It is generally supposed that cyclopedia articles are prepared by specialists who know what they are writing about.

From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene