The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anecdotic \An`ec*dot"ic\, Anecdotical \An`ec*dot"ic*al\, a.
Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes.
``Anecdotical traditions.''
--Bolingbroke.
Wiktionary
a. 1 anecdotal; of or pertaining to anecdotes. 2 Tending to tell anecdotes.
WordNet
adj. characterized by or given to telling anecdotes; "anecdotal conversation"; "an anectodal history of jazz"; "he was at his anecdotic best" [syn: anecdotal, anecdotical]
Usage examples of "anecdotic".
Brandes shows that two of that lady's exploits were probably suggested by the anecdotic history of the day.
Avoiding the popular "Wolfe collection," whose anecdotic canvases filled one of the main galleries of the queer wilderness of cast-iron and encaustic tiles known as the Metropolitan Museum, they had wandered down a passage to the room where the "Cesnola antiquities" mouldered in unvisited loneliness.
Avoiding the popular "Wolfe collection," whose anecdotic canvases filled one of the main galleries of the queer wilderness of cast-iron and encaustic tiles known as the Metropolitan Museum, they had wandered down a passage to the room where the "Cesnola antiquities" mouldered in unvisited loneliness.
Peniston's bedroom, and the magenta "flock" wall-paper, of a pattern dear to the early 'sixties, was hung with large steel engravings of an anecdotic character.