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单词 cyclopaedia
释义

cyclopaediacyclopedian.

/sʌɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə/
Forms: Also in Anglicized forms, 1600s cyclopædy, cyclopedy.
Etymology: A shortening or modification of encyclopaedia n. (itself due to an erroneous Greek reading), perhaps intended to convey more obviously the ostensible sense ‘circle of learning’, < Greek κύκλος circle + παιδεία education, a branch of learning.
1. The circle of learning; the whole body of arts and sciences; = encyclopaedia n. 1. Obsolete.
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).
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