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anecdotage|ˈænɪkdəʊtɪdʒ|
[f. anecdote n. + -age.]
1. Anecdotes collectively; anecdotic literature.
1823De Quincey in Lond. Mag. Mar. (title) Anecdotage. 1832–4― Cæsars Wks. 1862. 23 So minute and curious a collector of anecdotage as Suetonius. 1876J. Davies in Academy 25 Nov. 515 His biography..a repertory of anecdotage to the critics.
2. Humorously (attributed to John Wilkes; suggested by age and dotage), garrulous old age.
1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVII. 112 The disgusting perversions of their anile anecdotage. 1870Disraeli Lothair xxviii. 124 When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. 1880M. 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. |