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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

Take a letter please, a cyclopedia of business and social correspondence. © 11Jun37; A106790.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

For the latter purpose a good cyclopedia of quotations, like the Hoyt, will be found very helpful.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

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

From Emerson and Other Essays by Chapman, John Jay