What is "encyclopaedic"

Usage examples of "encyclopaedic".

Such monographs were only in later times collected in encyclopaedic works, in which they were inserted in such a manner as to constitute various chapters only, and no longer separate treatises.

Yakub-bin Ishak Al-Kindi, the philosopher of the Arabs, known in Europe by the corrupted name of Alchendius, possessed an encyclopaedic mind, and being himself a living encyclopaedia, he composed one of all the sciences.

There are various manuscripts of Averroes extant treating on physics, pure mathematics, astronomy and astrology, from which it would appear that, in spite of their encyclopaedic attainments, the celebrated men of these times still believed in some popular errors.

This author is worthy of notice, on account of the Arabic works he wrote on biographical, historical, and especially encyclopaedic subjects.

He had a habit of filing away odd bits of information in his encyclopaedic brain and, when he had time, marshalling them together like the pieces of a crossword puzzle.

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

It is a grand old encyclopaedic summary of all the author knew about pretty nearly everything, full of curious interest, but so strangely mediaeval, so utterly antiquated in most departments of knowledge, that it is hard to believe the volume came from the press at a time when persons whom I well remember were living.

It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable.

Durante and an encyclopaedic knowledge of de Niro movies had really been her style.

This fault is very incident to the scholarly style, which often sacrifices emphasis and conviction to a futile air of encyclopaedic grandeur.

His universal capabilities, his immense culture and almost encyclopaedic science have enabled him to utilize, thanks to his studies, all the knowledge allied to his subject.

The object of the epitome was to enable an individual to gather encyclopaedic knowledge without needing to plough through an entire work.

Nestor Hay knew everybody in the village round about, their fathers and grandfathers, their politics and religious opinions, and whether they were new folk or ancient inhabitants--an encyclopaedic knowledge not written, an Homeric memory.

As everything has a cause, it would be worth while to inquire whether the encyclopaedic newspaper is in response to a demand, to a taste created by our common schools.

His knowledge of the area was almost encyclopaedic, and she let him know how impressed she was.