单词 | cyclopaedia |
释义 | cyclopaediacyclopedian.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > large amount of knowledge > [noun] encyclopaedia1531 cyclopaedia1636 pansophy1642 pantology1813 tree of knowledge1848 library- 1636 H. Blount Voy. Levant 85 This Cyclopædia hath beene observed to runne from East, to West: Thus have most Civilities and Sciences come..from the Indian Gymnosophists, into Egypt; from thence into Greece, so into Italy. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 289 Nor yet was it a work of the Cyclopedy of Arts. 1675 T. Hobbes in tr. Homer Odysses To Rdr. sig. B6 The whole Learning of his time (which the Greeks call Cyclopædia). 2. A book containing extensive information on all branches of knowledge, or on all the branches of some particular art, science, etc.; usually arranged alphabetically; =encyclopaedia n. 2, 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > reference book > [noun] > encyclopaedia thesaurary1592 magazine1639 encyclopaedia1644 enciclopaidion1693 cyclopaedia1728 cyclopede1778 pantology1813 thesaurus1840 collegiate dictionary1872 collegiate1898 desk dictionary1948 learner's dictionary1948 megabook1990 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (title) Cyclopædia: or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1738 W. Bowyer in J. Nichols Lit. Anecd. 18th Cent. (1812) V. 659 While the second edition of Chambers's Cyclopædia was in the press I went to the author and begged leave to add a single syllable to his magnificent work, and that for Cyclopædia he would write Encyclopædia..I urged that Vossius had observed in his book de Vitiis Sermonis that ‘Cyclopædia was used by some authors, but Encyclopædia by the best’. 1878 J. Morley Diderot I. 118 He first suggested the idea of a cyclopædia on a fuller plan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1636 |
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