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encyclopædian

encyclopædian adjective: dated spelling of encyclopaedian.

Adjective

encyclopædian (not comparable)

  1. Dated spelling of encyclopaedian.
    • Even the writers of encyclopædian articles have, after devoting much space to the elements of civilization as it has been in the past is now viewed by man, balk at a definition and gracefully end their dissertation with the observation that it is an open question.1910, author uncertain, Alaska Reports, page 488

Noun

encyclopædian (plural encyclopædians)

  1. Dated spelling of encyclopaedian.
    • is not my friend the encyclopædian, regarded as a transgressor, and a high traitor because he uses the undoubted right of free thought, does not blindly believe, but looks abroad with open eyes and a clear intellect?1904, Luise Mühlbach, Frederick the Great and his Family, page 124

Forms of encyclopædian

pluralencyclopædians

Questions about encyclopædian

What does encyclopædian mean?
Encyclopædian means dated spelling of encyclopaedian.
What part of speech is encyclopædian?
Encyclopædian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near encyclopædian in the dictionary

  1. encyclopædia
  2. Encyclopædia Galactica
  3. encyclopædiac
  4. encyclopædiacal
  5. encyclopædial
  6. encyclopædian
  7. encyclopædians
  8. encyclopædias
  9. encyclopædic
  10. encyclopædical
  11. encyclopædically

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