Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia.
- adjective Embracing many subjects; comprehensive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of an encyclopedia; relating to all branches of knowledge.
- Possessing wide and varied information; specifically, possessing an extensive but fragmentary knowledge of facts rather than a comprehensive understanding of principles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; broad in scope or content; embracing a wide range of subjects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the characteristics of an
encyclopedia ; concerning allsubjects , havingcomprehensive information orknowledge . - adjective lexicography Relating to or containing encyclopedic
information rather than onlylinguistic orlexical information; aboutfacts andconcepts , and not only aword orterm ; includingproper names ,biographical andgeographical information andillustrations .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective broad in scope or content
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is a colorless reference volume in encyclopedic format lacking in dimension.
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Would it be valedictorian Hillary, primly showing off her knowledge of issues in encyclopedic detail?
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Within encyclopedic works, discussions of scientific topics were more likely to have been based on more recent studies than technological ones were.
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The first principle of Wasserman's approach was the autonomy of the text, its freedom from authorial intention, social history, politics, amd every day life (though one was expected to know all this in encyclopedic detail so as to be able to demonstrate the de facto as well as de jure autonomy of the text).
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The first principle of Wasserman's approach was the autonomy of the text, its freedom from authorial intention, social history, politics, and every day life (though one was expected to know all this in encyclopedic detail so as to be able to demonstrate the de facto as well as de jure autonomy of the text).
The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997
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He responded that the guide could not be "encyclopedic" -- without any indication the minister might not have been responsible for the removal.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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These interests are often coupled with an unusually high capacity to retain and recall encyclopedic amounts of information about the favored subject.
Asperger's Neal Ford 2005
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These interests are often coupled with an unusually high capacity to retain and recall encyclopedic amounts of information about the favored subject.
Archive 2005-04-01 Neal Ford 2005
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Besides these, in the ninth century Monte Cassino comes into prominence as an institution where much was done of what we would now call encyclopedic work.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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Secondly, concentration at once discards the idea of encyclopedic knowledge as an aim of school education.
The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Charles Alexander McMurry 1893
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