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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 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

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

It is essentially a small cyclopedia Of ready rules and references packed full from coyer to cover of condensed, meaty information and precepts on almost every leading subject connected with country life.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva