Kalipedia, he prophesied, would soon be generally adopted..
– James Joyce, Ulysses
I cannot find any information about this word! It doesn't help that there appears to be a Spanish online encyclopedia of the same name. What does Kalipedia mean in this context? It sounds as if it's an ideology or way of doing things perhaps?
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Joyce is famous for his neologisms and Kalipedia is one such. The entire sentence reads:
The word is constructed from the Greek kali (meaning beauty, as in calligraphy) and paedia (meaning education) and could be construed to mean education through beauty or perhaps enrichment through beauty. Joyce (or his character, Mr. Mulligan) very likely derived the word from the Greek phrase, Kalos kagathos: