Definition of Analecta

1. Noun. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.

Exact synonyms: Analects
Generic synonyms: Excerpt, Excerption, Extract, Selection

Definition of Analecta

1. analects [n] - See also: analects

Lexicographical Neighbors of Analecta

anal sinuses
anal sphincter
anal sphincters
anal stage
anal triangle
anal valves
anal verge
analagous
analbuminaemia
analbuminemia
analcime
analcimes
analcimic
analcite
analcites
analecta (current term)
analectic
analects
analemma
analemmas
analemmata
analemmatic
analepses
analepsis
analepsy
analept
analeptic
analeptic enema
analeptics
analgesia

Literary usage of Analecta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"His classification is no doubt based upon the readings given in Mommsen's analecta Liviana. This work, while it laid the foundations for a sounder criticism ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1858)
"analecta' NIC^ENA : Fragments relating to the Council of ' Nice. The Syriac Text from an ancient MS. in the British ' Museum.' How tempting a title is this ..."

3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1884)
"... striped with brown- . ish black, and tibia' heavily spotted with the same. Hab. Pacific coa« region, from southern Arizona to Sitka, Alaska. analecta ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"304-345 (luminous); H. Grisar, analecta Romana, no. ix., Rome, 1899; B. Platina, Lirez of the Popes, i. 145 sqq., London, nd; Chapman, Condemnation of Pope ..."

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