English

Adjective

encyclopædian ‎(not comparable)

1. Archaic form of encyclopedian.
   • 1910, author incertain in Alaska Reports, page 488:

     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.

Noun

encyclopædian ‎(plural encyclopædians)

1. Archaic form of encyclopedian.
   • 1904, Luise Mühlbach, Frederick the Great and his Family, page 124:

     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?