Noun
The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAfter all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia. Umberto Eco
Admiral Smyth says that no family is quite civilized unless it possesses a copy of some encyclopaedia and a telescope. William Henry Smyth
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. Charles Lamb
Source: Shyam Bahadur Varma, ed (2006). Encyclopaedia of Quotations. Prabhat Prakashan. p. 96. Hindi Proverb
According to the encyclopaedia, half of these Irish Americans were descended from Ulster, and half from the other three provinces of Ireland. Source: Internet
According to the Chinese encyclopaedia Cihai (辞海), there is some evidence that the system had been adopted twice, the first time already in the 4th century ( Jin dynasty ), based on a reference by a Jin era astrologer, Fan Ning (範寧 / 范宁). Source: Internet