difference between factual, "encyclopedic" information and linguistic information typically found in dictionaries. Thus, encyclopedias may contain material that is also found in dictionaries, and vice versa. In particular, dictionary entries often contain factual information about what the word refers to.

Pre-modern encyclopedias

The earliest encyclopedic work to have survived to modern times is the ''Natural History'' of Pliny the Elder,

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