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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

He took a humorous delight in mystifying the public with recondite allusions, sending everyone to the dictionary to look out "Byzantine logothete," and to the Bible and cyclopedia to find Armageddon.

From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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

His “I’ll risk it” was a whole cyclopedia of condensed gallantry.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry