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en·cy·clo·pe·dia
noun
also en·cy·clo·pae·dia \ə̇nˌsīkləˈpēdēə, (ˌ)en-, in rapid speech sometimes -dē in some contexts, as in “Encyclopaedia Britannica”\
(-s)
Etymology: Medieval Latin encyclopaedia course of general education, from a supposed Greek enkyklopaideia (in MSS of the Roman rhetorician Quintilian), from Greek enkyklios paideia general education, from enkyklios general + paideia education, rearing of a child, from paid-, pais child — more at foal
: a work that treats comprehensively all the various branches of knowledge and that is usually composed of individual articles arranged alphabetically; also : such a work treating only a particular branch of knowledge
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