Example sentences for: encyclopedic

How can you use “encyclopedic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 3) Why is the dispute between the Greek government and the British Museum over the Elgin Marbles raised in a dictionary (regardless of how encyclopedic it is)?

  • I question their status as lexical items but cannot argue on safe ground because they might well be categorized as part of the “encyclopedic” information.

  • Even in its first edition, his manual was more encyclopedic than others, packed with up-to-date medical and practical advice delivered in down-to-earth prose.

  • Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).

  • Dwelly set out to compile the Gaelic from all earlier dictionaries and was very successful in an encyclopedic effort; but the work would have been more useful had it an English-to-Gaelic section and provided some etymological clues as to meaning.


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