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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

It is a cyclopedia of inventions, in which one may be sure of finding described the best processes yet discovered for doing every thing that is to be done by means of mechanics.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

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