Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small piece selected from a literary work; an extract; a literary fragment: usually in plural, analects or analecta (which see).
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By Legge and most British Chinese scholars this work is called "The Confucian Analects," the word "analect" denoting things chosen, in the present case from the utterances of the master.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909
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French analecte. Name given to a slave whose responsibility it was to gather up the remains of a meal.
September 24, 2009