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- Dictionaryencyclopedic/ɛnˌsʌɪklə(ʊ)ˈpiːdɪk/
adjective
- 1. comprehensive in terms of information: "he has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of food"
- 2. relating to encyclopedias or information suitable for an encyclopedia: "a dictionary with encyclopedic material"
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1 hour ago · Definitions. Epic is so long-lived and widespread a genre that a definition is no sooner attempted—a long poetic narrative that in rehearsing its audience’s antecedents imparts through heroic epitome the values the future will demand of them—than that definition falls subject to embarrassing qualification, by reason of the very richness and variety of the genre’s exemplars.
1 hour ago · Zionism. Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. Zionism [a] (derived from Zion) is an ethnic or ethno-cultural nationalist [1] [fn 1] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and ...
1 hour ago · Other cases of democratic countries’ use of torture against people defined as insurgents, terrorists, revolutionaries, or criminals include the French use of torture in Vietnam and Algeria, British practices in Kenya and Northern Ireland, dirty war tactics employed by Spanish security forces against Basque separatists, as well as methods used by Israeli security services to interrogate ...
1 day ago · Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices.
