Assertion: encyclopedia's article | /r/CapableOf | use their space
Facets:
value: chiefly
type: DEGREE
value: as in ephraim chambers’s cyclopaedia
type: LOCATION
value: in explanations of the technical terms
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Earlier encyclopaedias—save for Denis de Coëtlogon’s An Universal History of Arts and Sciences (1745)—had not given systematic instruction on major subjects at all, either because they aimed at dealing with such subjects in a more general way (as in the Encyclopédie) or because articles on such subjects used their space chiefly in explanations of the technical terms involved (as in Ephraim Chambers’s Cyclopaedia).