Citations:encyclopædism

Noun: alternative form of

 * 1860, The British Quarterly Review, Jackson & Walford; Volume XXXII., page #78:
 * He loves to define, he is discontented with uncertainties, but acute in measuring the measurable ; for instance, he gives birth to encyclopædism that is conclusive on every branch of knowledge, and he is ready with constitutions and projects de loi for every nation under heaven that seems to require mending.
 * 1872, William Paley quoted in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Houlston and Sons; page #323:
 * Philosophism, encyclopædism, legislatism, and sansculotteism all united to proclaim Christianity a lie, its disciples the enemies of the human race and Reason —in the visible form of “ an opera‐dancer, fair to look upon when well rouged,” the only worship‐worthy deity of the universe.
 * 1905, The Monthly Review, John Murray; №. 53, page #163:
 * The French Revolution had been preceded and attended by a burst of un‐imaginative, “ reasonable ” encyclopædism. Then followed Napoleon, who was a practical incarnation of encyclopædism in action, daring everything, annexing all Europe as his province, opening out limitless vistas of opportunities and possibilities.