Definition of "analects" [an•a•lects]

• Selections from or parts of a literary work or group of works. Often used as a title. (noun-plural)

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• "A religous sect that hold the analects of PNB as the literal truth & word of Dog."
• "And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella."
• "The Histories and historical anecdotes, analects, and acroamata, in which the names, when not used achronistically by the editor or copier, give unerring data for the earliest date à quo and which, by the mode of treatment, suggest the latest."