What's the difference between biographical and encyclopedic?

Biographical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (2) In the course of the years, López Ibor came to the conclusion that anxious thymopathy was not an independent nosological entity, rather that vital (also called endothymic) anxiety was an element present in all forms of neurotic disorders integrated with personality and biographical factors.
  • (3) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
  • (4) Read more Some biographical details in the forms are not consistent with known information.
  • (5) After this all patients were given three questionnaires: Symptom Questionnaire, Illness Behaviour Questionnaire and a Biographic Questionnaire prepared specifically for this study.
  • (6) Quantitative data collected included a range of biographical detail, an outline of career patterns, professional qualifications and specific preparation undertaken for the teaching role.
  • (7) The profile’s biographical sentence read: “The official account of Andy Burnham’s campaign to be Labour’s candidate for mayor of Greater Manchester.” The account retained all its followers, although all the old tweets had been deleted.
  • (8) The biographer of James Maxton, a Scots leftwinger with his own iconic status, he knows about party loyalties and tribal heroes.
  • (9) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
  • (10) But with quotation now limited to fair dealing most of this will have to go, and the new version will be much more biographical.
  • (11) Hence, biographical anamnesis can be obligatory, supplying information that is essential for a therapeutic approach.
  • (12) The hopes which detente aroused remain, on the whole, unfulfilled while Macmillan's part in returning Russian prisoners of war to Stalin in 1945 will need explanation to his biographer.
  • (13) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
  • (14) This paper elucidates their mutual relationship and corrects biographical inaccuracies concerning George Huntington and George Sumner Huntington.
  • (15) More on The Butler • The Butler: first-look review • News: Barack Obama 'teared up' watching The Butler • News: Reagan biographers attack The Butler's portrayal
  • (16) This has been disputed by Wilde's recent biographer Neil McKenna, who has argued that Wilde had a sexual relationship with Frank Miles in 1876 – but McKenna's book was published in 2003, and this film was made in 1997.
  • (17) It tries to influence the biographical development.
  • (18) 22 female patients with aphonia underwent laryngoscopic and phonic examinations, psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing and biographical history-taking.
  • (19) The successful musical Fela!, about the life of the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, recently had to defend itself against $5 million claim from his official biographer on the grounds that it failed to credit his book asa source for the production.
  • (20) For a comprehensive approach to psychic risk factors and their treatment and prevention anxiety, depression, important experiences in life and individual biographic constellations are equally important.

Encyclopedic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Encyclopedical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Smoke weed every day!” And in movies, Snoop’s been happy to play to his stoner persona, both in the pro-weed documentary The Culture High and as Huggy Bear in 2004’s Starsky and Hutch , where he displays an encyclopedic knowledge of actual grass varieties on a golf course.
  • (2) The encyclopedic list of diagnostic considerations can be distilled into a concise and practical differential diagnosis based on the location of the mass and the established prevalence of various tumors and pseudotumors in the mediastinal compartments.
  • (3) How does the Fed, which has an encyclopedic command of every kind of economic indicator, know all of this is working?
  • (4) Woodworth's scholarly approach pervaded the department so that many of his colleagues also wrote pioneering encyclopedic works in their particular fields of specialization.
  • (5) The co-author of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, Gambaccini has an encyclopedic knowledge of music and is rare, probably unique, among radio presenters in having worked across BBC Radio, from 1 to 4, as well as for commercial stations such as Capital and Classic FM, in his 35-year broadcasting career.
  • (6) This brief review of abdominal emergencies is by no means encyclopedic.
  • (7) His refusal to take any MP or situation very seriously masked an encyclopedic knowledge of politics derived from his spell as the Observer's political editor.
  • (8) The flagship exhibition of Massimiliano Gioni’s 2013 Venice Biennale was entitled The Encyclopedic Palace after the work of self-taught Italian outsider artist Marino Auriti.
  • (9) "I woke up at 14 or 15 and realised that I was a genius with an encyclopedic knowledge of punk music, but my parents were concerned with trivial matters, like whether I picked my socks up or not.
  • (10) His encyclopedic knowledge of the NHS meant new health secretaries always relied heavily on his advice.
  • (11) We have not attempted to be encyclopedic, but have confined ourselves to the more common or distinctiive radiographic findings.
  • (12) He would eventually accrue a near-legendary encyclopedic knowledge on almost everything except for sport, which he didn't like.
  • (13) To expect the chief executive to display encyclopedic command of every aspect of that brief is unrealistic.
  • (14) As he says: “I get older, they stay the same age.” 5 | Snoop Dogg Rapper Facebook Twitter Pinterest Encyclopedic knowledge: Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch.
  • (15) He was famous for pioneering a form of political essay built on his encyclopedic knowledge of Latin America’s past, and his writings bear some comparison with the similarly innovative works of Ryszard Kapuściński and Sven Lindqvist .
  • (16) S M Mahmudul Hasan, 55, a community leader at Korail, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the residents, mostly families who migrated from places such as Bhola and Barial.
  • (17) This article discusses all of the options recently available in order to give information to those treating patients who have had these procedures as well as to be encyclopedic in the event that these techniques become available again.
  • (18) Contrary to what has been claimed, Wimmer's original description, although showing an encyclopedic knowledge of the international literature of the day, has not been directly influenced by Magnan.
  • (19) Watson showed off its encyclopedic knowledge of topics ranging from ancient languages to fashion design, along with a few glitches.
  • (20) Major issues in content are presented with reference to encyclopedic and more readable texts and journals.