a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.]
1. Of the nature of anecdota or anecdotes.
a. 1744. Bolingbroke, Lett. to Pope (1753), 504–5 (L.). Particular, anecdotical traditions, whose original authority is unknown, or justly suspicious.
1850. Merivale, Rom. Emp., IV. xxxvii. 267. The anecdotical gossip of Suetonius.
1877. Daily News, 26 Dec., 3/3. I have touched on the anecdotical and more secret parts of the late events.
2. Gossiping; story-telling.
a. 1744. Pope, Wks., 1751, VIII. 212 (Jod.). If the graver historians hereafter shall be silent of this year’s events, the amorous and anecdotical may make posterity some amends.
1861. Dickens, Lett. (1880), II. 143. He was talkative, anecdotical, and droll.
