All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of
encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.
No one, I'm sure, has your
encyclopaedic knowledge upon every subject.
He had an
encyclopaedic command of the field of knowledge, and by a word or a phrase, by delicate rapier thrusts, he punctured them.
While Mary drew, Diana pursued a course of
encyclopaedic reading she had (to my awe and amazement) undertaken, and I fagged away at German, he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans.
Second, there is
encyclopaedic or general information, which involves commonplace assumptions, culturally held beliefs, experiences, observations, etc.
He was nominated for his exhibition called The
Encyclopaedic Palace, shown at the 55th Venice Biennale, a major contemporary art exhibition taking place every two years in Venice.
Three skills you need to be a cabbie: a driving licence, good, safe driving skills and an
encyclopaedic knowledge of your local area.
It is not necessary to impress the man in your life with an
encyclopaedic knowledge of football.
That's according to John Terry, who reckons the Blues owner (right) has an
encyclopaedic knowledge of the game and its players.
He was witty and humorous and told great stories about Annitsford in bygone days, he had an
encyclopaedic knowledge of the area.
At a certain point this process topples into the
encyclopaedic, and it's time to jump tracks again, back to the reductive, to exactitude, to the diagrammatic.
So, Sequence Stratigraphy of Clastic Systems does provide
encyclopaedic, in-depth and unbiased coverage of all current ideas and models in the field, and I commend the author for this effort.