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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

One of the functions of the modern library is that of a huge cyclopedia, kept continually up to date by the acquisition of new material—books, periodicals, prints, pamphlets, clippings, publicity matter and manuscripts.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

It seemed at first as if nothing less than a cyclopedia could contain what would have to be used.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted