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analects

noun
/ˈæ.nəˌlɛk(t)s/

Etymology

From James Legge's 1861 translation of the work's Mandarin Chinese title 論語 (Lúnyǔ). "Analects" itself is a 1658 Ancient Greek loanword from ἀνάλεκτα (análekta, “things chosen”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + λέγειν (légein, “to gather”). Compare lecture.

  1. derived from ἀνάλεκτα

Definitions

  1. A collection of excerpts or quotes.

  2. The collected sayings of Confucius

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for analects. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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