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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

He would have liked to read all the books in the library—but he started in on a cyclopedia.

From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Whipple, Wayne

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

The magazines fulfil the same function; every one of them is a penny cyclopedia.

From Emerson and Other Essays by Chapman, John Jay