[f. ANECDOTE + -AGE.]
1. Anecdotes collectively; anecdotic literature.
1823. De Quincey, in Lond. Mag., March (title), Anecdotage. Ibid. (1832–4), Cæsars, Wks. 1862, 23. So minute and curious a collector of anecdotage as Suetonius.
1876. J. Davies, in Academy, 25 Nov., 515. His [G. Ticknor’s] biography … a repertory of anecdotage to the critics.
2. Humorously (attributed to John Wilkes; suggested by age and dotage), Garrulous old age.
1835. Blackw. Mag., XXXVII. 112. The disgusting perversions of their anile anecdotage.
1870. Disraeli, Lothair, xxviii. 124. When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
1880. M. Collins, Th. in Gard., I. 151. A man who has reached his anecdotage—to use a pun which Disraeli the younger has conveyed from Wilkes.
