a. [f. as prec. + -IC; cf. mod.Fr. anecdotique.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of anecdotes.
1816. H. C. Robinson, Diary (1869), II. 10. His conversation is only intelligent and anecdotic and gentlemanly.
1829. Carlyle, Misc., II. 6. The peculiar talent of the French in all … anecdotic departments.
1856. Lever, Martins of Cro’ M., V. 237. That taste for story-teling—that anecdotic habit is quite vulgar.
2. Addicted to anecdote, ready to tell stories.
1870. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1870), II. 67. The Captain is … very talkative and anecdotic.
1881. Athenæum, 5 Feb., 192/1. Dr. Stevens, however, is not an anecdotic biographer.
