encyclopædian

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See also: encyclopaedian

English

Adjective

encyclopædian (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete typography of encyclopaedian.
    • 1910, author uncertain, Alaska Reports, page 488:
      Even the writers of encyclopædian articles have, after devoting much space to the elements of civilization as it has been in the past is now viewed by man, balk at a definition and gracefully end their dissertation with the observation that it is an open question.

Noun

encyclopædian (plural encyclopædians)

  1. Obsolete typography of encyclopaedian.
    • 1904, Luise Mühlbach, Frederick the Great and his Family, page 124:
      is not my friend the encyclopædian, regarded as a transgressor, and a high traitor because he uses the undoubted right of free thought, does not blindly believe, but looks abroad with open eyes and a clear intellect?