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  1. A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.
  2. (dated) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge.
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The man is a walking encyclopedia, with vast knowledge of history, the classics, politics, and anything else one can possibly think of.
On the terms of this encyclopedia, art historians are implicitly aestheticians without being consciously aware of it.
The bulk of the book is an encyclopedia covering 700 species of ferns found in cultivation.
Like all the entries in the encyclopedia, this one is crammed with details.
This is almost an encyclopedia of rhetorical strategy and poetic form, from the sonnet and the Keatsian ode to concrete poetry and acrostics.
Graham, who learnt from his father and other Barkinji elders, is a walking encyclopedia of traditional bush tucker.

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