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Selected passages from the writings of an author or of different authors; a title for a collection of choice extracts. See analect.

Musarum Anglicanarum analecta ... in duo volumina congesta. — The Library of William Congreve
I delight in the analecta, the collectanea, as I may call them, of the preceding day's dinner, which appear on such occasions--And see, there is Jenny going to ring the dinner-bell CHAPTER FIFTEENTH Be this letter delivered with haste--haste--post-haste Ride, villain, ride,--for thy life--for thy life--for thy life Ancient Indorsation of Letters of Importance Leaving Mr. Oldbuck and his friend to enjoy their hard bargain of fish, we beg leave to transport the reader to the back-parlour of the post-master's house at Fairport, where his wife, he himself being absent, was employed in assorting for delivery the letters which had come by the Edinburgh post. — The Antiquary — Complete