encyclopaedic
- s broad in scope or content
- Then, "sorrowfully, reverently, and in fear and trembling," she set about burning his manuscript of The Scented Garden, an encyclopaedic sex manual whose translation from the .
- He has a convenient and, in a sense, encyclopaedic, store of famed men's last words, hobbies, epigrams and elementary historical facts, which he knows how to use impressively.
- Especially is he noted for his encyclopaedic grasp of foreign, Dominion and colonial affairs.