Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Selections from or parts of a literary work or group of works. Often used as a title.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A collection of literary fragments.
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- noun A collection of
excerpts orquotes .
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- noun a collection of excerpts from a literary work
Etymologies
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Examples
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A religous sect that hold the analects of PNB as the literal truth & word of Dog.
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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.
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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.
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These are the opening lines of the analects of Confucius.
Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West 1999
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Hara could close his eyes and picture the old man, white-haired and erect as he sat reciting analects of Confucious before the family altar, which housed the tablets of his ancestors and his lord.
Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995
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Hara could close his eyes and picture the old man, white-haired and erect as he sat reciting analects of Confucious before the family altar, which housed the tablets of his ancestors and his lord.
Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995
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'I think I'll have a pee,' said Boyer, 'but remember what I say about the analects.
A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978
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The sayings of Confucius analects, I believe they are really.
A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978
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The following are extracts from the analects of Confucius: --
History of Education Levi Seeley 1887
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Masabumi lectured on the analects and Urabe Kanetomo expounded the standard literature of the East.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
seanahan commented on the word analects
Often used to describe the collected writings of Confucius.
March 1, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word analects
JM is compiling a compendium of analects made up of the last three words of 7,000 bestsellers.
May 26, 2010