an encyclopedic knowledge of medieval literatureencyclopedicen‧cy‧clo‧pe‧dic (also encyclopaedic British English) /ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdɪk◂/ adjective 
an encyclopedic knowledge of medieval literature
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Haspiel has an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball.
- Anyway, there's a bit of a lull at the moment before I start helping out with the encyclopedic dictionary.
- Eleven appendices packed with valuable cross-curricular and cultural information. ... to the world's first encyclopedic learner's dictionary!
- Expanded entry giving extra encyclopedic information 2.
- He excelled particularly in the natural sciences, in which his knowledge was described as encyclopedic.
- Hoffman possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Precambrian continental geology.
- I had thought that Jasper, who was encyclopedic about so many things, would know what a nucleotide is.
- It was an encyclopedic work, setting out the concept of a universal language as a comprehensive taxonomic structure.
- That choice makes the book eclectic rather than encyclopedic.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY an encyclopedic knowledge of medieval literatureCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
having a lot of knowledge or information about a particular subject: an encyclopedic knowledge of medieval literature· Hoffman possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Precambrian continental geology.· Many have expansive interests and encyclopedic knowledge.· On the plus side, there is the encyclopedic knowledge of the subject at hand.
an encyclopedic knowledge of medieval literature