encyclopedically
If you want to know anything about the Great Wall of China, consult an encyclopedia.
His knowledge of cricket could fill a whole set of encylopaedias.
The website has links to online dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries, and thesauruses.

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encyclopedia | American Dictionary

encyclopedia
noun[ C ]
(alsoencyclopaedia)us/ɪnˌsɑɪ·kləˈpi·di·ə/
a large collection of information about one or many subjects, often arranged alphabetically in articles in a book or set of books, or available through a computer

Examples of encyclopedia

encyclopedia
A special subgroup, possibly the most important for the study of science and philosophy, are the tri-partite encyclopedias.
He shone in conferences because he had a fantastic memory for facts about theatre - he was an unindexed encyclopedia of world theatre.
The most common results, then, are books that are something like dictionaries, something like encyclopedias and, often, something like cabinets of curiosities.
Theoretical diversity also matches the substantive diversity of contemporary western politics, which is (despite the editors stated contrary intention) the primary focus of this encyclopedia.
The essays had already been superseded by specialist treatises and by much bigger encyclopedias.
Never mind these uppity modern digraphs: words like encyclopedia, anaemia etc rejoiced in proper diphthongs during my formative years.
Rather, encyclopedias became reflexive; they described themselves as the science of science - which presupposed that science existed independently of encyclopedias.
Having noted some positive points, let me now turn to some problematic aspects of this encyclopedia.
Teachers of family history will also find this encyclopedia a useful way to keep abreast of scholarship from the 1990s.
It takes time and effort to discover that there is no information since, being an encyclopedia, there is no index.
The format of this encyclopedia seems to be geared for web-based access to information.
This is shown as much in dictionary and encyclopedia articles as it is in essays and books.
I knew that, even if my tenure committee accepted the legitimacy of "public philosophy," they would not consider encyclopedia entries significant research.
A profusion of encyclopedias and collectanea was produced to satisfy this thirst for broad learning.
It is an encyclopedia that lives up to the claim to provide plentiful material on intellectual and religious topics.
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