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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

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

He took a humorous delight in mystifying the public with recondite allusions, sending everyone to the dictionary to look out "Byzantine logothete," and to the Bible and cyclopedia to find Armageddon.

From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

But he soon found question after question to ask that the cyclopedia did not answer.

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