The word encyclopedia, which to us usually means a large set of books, descends from a phrase that involved coming to grips with the contents of such books. The Greek phrase is enkuklios paideia, made up of enkuklios, cyclical, periodic, ordinary, and paideia, education, and meaning general education, literally the arts and sciences that a person should study to be liberally educated.
“Encyclopedia.” The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, 1992.

 

 

 
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CONTENTS

GUIDE  •  KEY TO PRONUNCIATION  •  BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

A  to  adhesive
Adiel  to  Alammelech
Alamo, the  to  Alsop, Richard
Alta California  to  anemone
Aner  to  Aragón, house of
Araguaía  to  asphodel
asphyxia  to  Azusa
  
B  to  banyan
Banyuwangi  to  bead test
beagle, breed of dog  to  Beowulf
Beppu  to  bioethics
biofeedback  to  body-marking
body snatching  to  boxing
box turtle  to  Brown, Capability
Brown, Charles Brockden  to  Byzantium
  
C, letter of the alphabet  to  Canonicus
canonization  to  Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte
Castiglione, Giovanni B.  to  chamois
chamomile  to  chicken pox
chick-pea  to  civil rights
civil service  to  collage
collagen  to  contraband
contrabassoon  to  Crane, Walter
crane, in zoology  to  Czuczor, Gergely
  
D  to  Defoe, Daniel
defoliant  to  diesel engine
Dies irae  to  Down syndrome
dowry  to  Dzungaria
  
E, letter of the alphabet  to  Elements (table)
Eleph  to  Eric the Red
Eridanus  to  Ezzelino da Romano
  
F  to  Finger Lakes
fingerprint  to  Foster, Hannah Webster
Foster, Jodie  to  Fyt, Jan
  
G  to  geode
geodesic dome  to  goby
God  to  Great Mother Goddess
Great Neck  to  Gyumri
  
H  to  Harlingen
Harlow, Jean  to  helicopter
heliocentric system  to  Hindustani
Hine, Lewis  to  Horsehead Nebula
horse latitudes  to  Hywel Dda
  
I  to  insulation
insulin  to  Izvolsky, Aleksandr Petrovich
  
J  to  Jim Crow laws
Jiménez, Juan Ramón  to  Jyväskylä
  
K  to  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, Joseph Patrick  to  Knight, Sarah Kemble
knight  to  Kyzyl Kum
  
L  to  Lautaro
Lauterbrunnen  to  Lewis and Clark expedition
Lewis and Harris  to  London, Jack
London, city, England  to  Lytton, Victor A. G. R.
  
M, letter of the alphabet  to  Malay Peninsula
Malaysia  to  Markiewicz, C. G., Countess
Markova, Dame Alicia  to  Media
median  to  Michener, James Albert
Michigan  to  modern art
modern dance  to  Morrison, Arthur
Morrison, Toni  to  Mzab
  
N  to  Neolithic period
neomycin  to  Nin, Anaïs
ninebark  to  Nystad, Treaty of
  
O  to  Opéra
opera  to  ozone layer
  
P  to  parochial school
parody  to  penates
pen-based computer  to  pharaoh
Pharisees  to  pitchblende
Pitcher, Molly  to  pony express
poodle  to  printing
Printz, Johan Björnsson  to  Python, in Greek mythology
  
Q  to  Quy Nhon
  
R  to  Red Sea
red shift  to  Richthofen, Manfred, Baron von
Ricimer  to  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Theodore  to  Rzhev
  
S  to  sampler
Sampras, Pete  to  scale insect
Scalia, Antonin  to  semantics
semaphore  to  Shih Tzu
Shiites  to  Skeat, Walter William
Skeena  to  Soranus
Sorbonne  to  Stanton, Edwin McMasters
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady  to  Sture
sturgeon  to  Szymborska, Wislawa
  
T  to  temperance movements
temperature  to  Tiffany, Charles Lewis
Tiffany, Louis Comfort  to  trap-door spider
trapezoid  to  Tz’u Hsi
  
U, letter  to  Uzziel
  
V  to  Vespasian
vespers  to  Vytegra
  
W  to  weight lifting
weights and measures  to  Williams, Ted
Williams, Tennessee  to  Wythe, George
  
X  to  XYZ Affair
Y  to  Yverdon-les-Bains
Z  to  Zyrians

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