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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
encyclopedic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
knowledge
▪ Hoffman possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Precambrian continental geology.
▪ Many have expansive interests and encyclopedic knowledge.
▪ On the plus side, there is the encyclopedic knowledge of the subject at hand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Haspiel has an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyway, there's a bit of a lull at the moment before I start helping out with the encyclopedic dictionary.
▪ Eleven appendices packed with valuable cross-curricular and cultural information. ... to the world's first encyclopedic learner's dictionary!
▪ Expanded entry giving extra encyclopedic information 2.
▪ He excelled particularly in the natural sciences, in which his knowledge was described as encyclopedic.
▪ Hoffman possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Precambrian continental geology.
▪ I had thought that Jasper, who was encyclopedic about so many things, would know what a nucleotide is.
▪ It was an encyclopedic work, setting out the concept of a universal language as a comprehensive taxonomic structure.
▪ That choice makes the book eclectic rather than encyclopedic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encyclopedic

Encyclopedic \En*cy`clo*ped"ic\, Encyclopedical \En*cy`clo*ped"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. encyclop['e]dique.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; broad in scope or content; embracing a wide range of subjects; as, a person having encyclopedic knowledge of a subject. [Also spelled encyclopaedic.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
encyclopedic

1816, from encyclopedia + -ic.

Wiktionary
encyclopedic

a. 1 Of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge. 2 (context lexicography English) Relating to or containing encyclopedic information rather than only linguistic or lexical information; about facts and concepts, and not only a word or term; including proper names, biographical and geographical information and illustrations.

WordNet
encyclopedic

adj. broad in scope or content; "encyclopedic knowledge" [syn: encyclopaedic]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "encyclopedic".

Just look at any Internet porn site, and you will find an encyclopedic menu of readily available prefabricated fantasies that span from orgies and bondage to sex with farm animals.

As mediators of disputes among Terrestrial-settled worlds and advocates of Terrestrial interests in contacts with alien cultures, Corps diplomats, trained in the chanceries of innumerable defunct bureaucracies, displayed an encyclopedic grasp of the nuances of Extra-Terrestrial mores as set against the labyrinthine socio-politico-economic Galactic context.

As mediators of disputes among Terrestrial-settled worlds and advocates of Terrestrial interests in contacts with alien cultures, Corps diplomats, trained in the chanceries of innumerable defunct bureaucracies, displayed an encyclopedic grasp of the nuances of Estra-Terrestrial mores as set against the labyrinthine socio-politico-economic Galactic context.

He had an encyclopedic knowledge of Haven's electoral system, and he knew where the bodies were buried.

The omnipotent, omniscient Masters, speaking from their immense and encyclopedic knowledge of all forms of music and their total understanding of the universe and Man's subliminal relationship with the Natural World, do not believe that this facet of Optherian life needs to be celebrated at any point in the year, certainly not during the Summer Festival when off-worlders might possibly hear something evoking a valid Optherian subculture and more original than variations on the usual pre-predigested pap that 'accredited' composers churn out.

Drake was only an organic chemist but he had an encyclopedic knowledge of pulp fiction.

Among writings of general interest in connection with animal domestication, the standard encyclopedic reference work to the world's wild mammals is Ronald Nowak, ed.

For instance, in company, Ally could no longer get away with showing off his encyclopedic knowledge of Woody Allen scripts or De Niro's oeuvre, because she knew he also had an encyclopedic knowledge of South Park scripts and Van Damme's oeuvre.

In fact he has an encyclopedic knowledge of slogans and straplines, including one or two of my own.