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encyclopaedias

n. (alternative form of encyclopaediae lang=en nodot=t); (plural of encyclopaedia English)

encyclopædias

n. (plural of encyclopædia nodot=t English), an (alternative spelling of encyclopaedia nocap=t English)

Usage examples of "encyclopaedias".

Fifteen years of reading the encyclopaedias, plus extensive reading of other books, had given him a truly encyclopaedic brain.

As print encyclopaedias went, it was a daring innovator and a pioneer of hyperlinked-like textual design.

At any given period there was a dearth of reliable encyclopaedias, which exercised a monopoly on the dissemination of knowledge.

Statesman and some dusty volumes which looked like encyclopaedias and probably were.

Quade had read about it in his encyclopaedias and had tried it outas he had many other things that particularly interested him.

He's like one of those awful encyclopædias that give you a sort of dull leaden feeling in your head directly you open them.

Of the fate of that cohort no record exists, but the town at least was saved - for encyclopædias tell of the survival of Pompelo to this day, under the modern Spanish name of Pompelona.