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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

Blashfield's cyclopedia of automobile law and practice, with forms; permanent ed.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Colonial patriot, "arch rebel of King George III," "idol of the court of Versailles," Franklin was a cyclopedia of political strategy and principles.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

The aim often seems to be—especially in such a subject as geography—to make the pupil what has been called a "cyclopedia of useless information."

From How We Think by Dewey, John