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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

The unscientific reader can go to the botanical manual or cyclopedia and under this name find the species described.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

She had been to the "up-stairs room" during recess and brought down the cyclopedia, and, happily, had found a page and a half regarding Giunta Pisano therein, which she was copying verbatim.

From The Evolution of Dodd by Smith, William Hawley

So Miss Stone was soon busy with her pen, the index finger of her left hand noting the line in the cyclopedia which should be next transcribed.

From The Evolution of Dodd by Smith, William Hawley