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    encyclopedia


    1. Maybe it was time to invest in a new, CD-based encyclopedia


    2. a thrill of satisfaction, found a section in an encyclopedia on


    3. There was little in the exhibit, that in comparison, he had not seen similar on Earth, whether it be real in a museum, or in an encyclopedia, online, or in a book


    4. I looked up Charles Fort in an online encyclopedia


    5. After that it ground against its Christian [Byzantine] adversary with little effect until the first Christian Crusade in the 11th century caused them a temporary setback” (Encyclopedia Americana; Mohammed)


    6. The Encyclopedia Americana (1959 edition) was already in house, not very up to date, but it had the advantage, as I was later to realize, of having been published before the intrusion of the political correctness movement, and therefore probably more reliable than some more recent sources of information


    7. The encyclopedia added an additional date of AD 622 as the traditional start of his prophetic office and their calendar, and it had, in addition, explained that AD 625 was the date of the first wounding of their leader in one of the early but significant victories


    8. He would also hit the encyclopedia, tap the Internet, and visit the library


    9. in the encyclopedia the statement: “It is difficult to find anything in Lenin’s childhood that might have turned him onto the path of a professional revolutionary


    10. As a result of this, the Encyclopedia Judaica states:

    11. A very good summary of this last war and its sequellae are given in the Encyclopedia Judaica:


    12. I quote below a passage from the Jewish Encyclopedia that sums up this relationship between prince and Jew


    13. The biographical sketch of Itzig in Encyclopedia Judaica ends with the laconic note “Virtually none of Itzig’s descendents remained Jews


    14. encyclopedia as a bed time story


    15. The dictionary, encyclopedia, and other reference books would become friends of


    16. (She used to spend time reading dictionaries and pages in the encyclopedia, even her mothers’ discarded cheap paperbacks, in her desperate desire to learn


    17. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    18. From Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia


    19. Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time


    20. Aureliano Segundo, having broken finally with his wife because of the irrational way in which she handled Meme’s tragedy, did not know of the existence of his grandson until three years after they brought him home, when the child escaped from captivity through an oversight on Fernanda’s part and ap-peared on the porch for a fraction of a second, naked, with matted hair, and with an impressive sex organ that was like a turkey’s wattles, as if he were not a human child but the encyclopedia definition of a cannibal

    21. But the concerts did not attract their attention as much as the sessions with the encyclopedia, and once more they got together in Meme’s room, where Aureliano Segundo’s imagination changed a dirigible into a flying elephant who was looking for a place to sleep among the clouds


    22. He was more interested in the encyclopedia than In the domestic problem, even when he had to content himself with a scrap of meat and a little rice for lunch


    23. Aureliano Segundo took the children to look at the encyclopedia, as always, and Fer-nanda pretended to straighten out Meme’s room just so that he could listen to her muttering, of course, that it certainly took cheek for him to tell the poor inno-cents that there was a picture of Colonel Aureliano Buendía in the encyclopedia


    24. But once when Fernanda caught him putting scorpions in a box to put in Úrsula’s bed, she locked him up in Meme’s old room, where he spent his solitary hours looking through the pictures in the encyclopedia


    25. She was tying a colorful string of chatter together, commenting on things from many separate places and many different times, so that when Amaranta Úrsula returned from school and Aureliano grew tired of the encyclopedia, they would find her sitting on her bed, talking to herself and lost in a labyrinth of dead people


    26. Aureliano remembered having seen a similar table in the English encyclopedia, so he brought it to the room to compare it with that of José Arcadio Segundo


    27. He discovered then that he could understand written English and that be-tween parchments he had gone from the first page to the last of the six volumes of the encyclopedia as if it were a novel


    28. At first he attributed to that the fact that Aureliano could speak about Rome as if he had lived there many years, but he soon became aware that he knew things that were not in the encyclopedia, such as the price of items


    29. When Gaston asked him what he had done to obtain knowledge that was not in the encyclopedia, he received the same answer as José Arcadio: “Everything Is known


    30. World Book Encyclopedia 1967 agrees that

    31. Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia [data on the Universe, Earth, the human species, and the history of each]


    32. Encyclopedia of the World’s Religions, edited by R


    33. ―He has become a regular encyclopedia of useless medieval knowledge


    34. encyclopedia should be at hand, too


    35. “Yes,” said Mordan, who was half Father and half encyclopedia


    36. responded, as quoted in The World Book Encyclopedia (1993):


    37. It seemed to me that he had listed almost all diseases from the medical encyclopedia we had at home, and even in the same alphabetical order


    38. Homo sapiens sapiens—“man, the wise” per the good old Encyclopedia Britannica—now that’s an oxymoron if there ever was one!


    39. Am’ma Encyclopedia (15) - Interpretation of the Wind (Al-’Adi’yat) Fortress


    40. encyclopedia of animals, where it was possible to easily and quickly obtain

    41. will not find in an encyclopedia on animals is the intellectual factor


    42. I later came across several encyclopedia illustrations that depicted the nuclear bomb’s


    43. Considering what is said in volume 5 of the 1966 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia 175


    44. books published before 1641, were selected for THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA with the assistance of the Folger


    45. · Am’ma Encyclopedia (15) - Interpretation of the Wind (Al-’Adi’yat) Fortress


    46. I read all the books of my father – who was the greatest preacher and scholar of Hadith in Damascus – one example being The Encyclopedia of Prophetic Tradition


    47. [63] For more illustration of this, please refer to the book of Am’ma Encyclopedia from the great eminent scholar Mohammad Emin Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al’lah)


    48. The date on this encyclopedia is


    49. As the wonderful free encyclopedia Wikipedia defines it, the ache was a chronic, painful sensation


    50. " (The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1982, "Humor in the Bible")




































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    Synonyms for "encyclopedia"

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    "encyclopedia" definitions

    a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty