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from The Century Dictionary.

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

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  • noun a collection of excerpts from a literary work

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  • Literary gleanings.

    "My journals of collected quotes could be described as analecta."

    March 1, 2008

  • The only variant I can recall seeing of this is in the analects of Confucius.

    March 1, 2008