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Encyclopedias provide basic information, explanations, and definitions of virtually every topic, concept, country, institution, historical person or movement, and cultural artifact imaginable.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Encyclopedias, being time sensitive, are the most ephemeral of imposing objects.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2014

Encyclopedias, according to the encyclopedia, are books containing basic knowledge in all areas of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

Encyclopedias at home would not be needed, for if a child needed research materials he might be able to call for information to a central source for standard reference materials.

From Time Magazine Archive

Encyclopedias are the growth of the last hundred years; not because those who were formerly students of higher learning have descended, but because those who were below encyclopaedias have ascended.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas