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encyclopaedical

a. Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.

encyclopædical

a. (alternative spelling of encyclopaedical English)

Usage examples of "encyclopaedical".

It may be truly said that this writer, along with Ibn Khallikan, laid the foundations of the records of the edifice of encyclopaedical and biographical works, which was afterwards completed by Haji Khalfa and Abul Khair.

The works of Abul Khair, previously mentioned, and of Haji Khalfa, embody a mass of information, and constitute the top of the pyramid of encyclopaedical and biographical works, after which nothing worthy of mention has been written on these subjects.

On referring to the great encyclopaedical and bibliographical dictionary, edited by Fluegel, it will be found, under No.

The greatest of them were men of encyclopædical acquirements and powers, like the great men of Greece.