anecdote (anekdot)

[F. anecdote, first in pl. anecdotes, ML. anecdota, Prally has reference to a series of incidents so arranen and related as to be entertaining. anecdotic, anecdotical (an-ek-dot'ik, -i-kal), a. 1. Pertaining to anecdotes; consisting of or of the nature of anecdotes; anecdotal. Anecdotical traditions, whose authority is unknown. Bolingbroke, Letter to Pope. He has had rather an anecdotic history,... lazy as George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xxxv. IMG:content-0725.png:[blocks in formation] with the vertebrates. See Hæmataria, and cut under gas trula.