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▪ I. anecdote, n.|ˈænɪkdəʊt|
[a. Fr. anecdote, or ad. its source, med.L. anecdota (see sense 1), a. Gr. ἀνέκδοτα things unpublished, f. ἀν priv. + ἔκδοτ-ος published, f. ἐκ-διδόναι to give out, publish: applied by Procopius to his ‘Unpublished Memoirs’ of the Emperor Justinian, which consisted chiefly of tales of the private life of the court; whence the application of the name to short stories or particulars.]
1. pl. Secret, private, or hitherto unpublished narratives or details of history. (At first, and now again occas. used in L. form anecdota |əˈnɛkdətə|.)
1676Marvell Mr. Smirke Wks. 1875 IV. 71 A man..might make a pleasant story of the anecdota of that meeting. 1686F. Spence (title) Anecdotes of Florence, or the secret History of the House of Medicis [a translation of Varillas' Anecdotes de Florence]. 1727Swift Gulliver iii. viii. 230 Those who pretend to write anecdotes, or secret history. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Anecdotes, Anecdota, a term used by some authors, for the titles of Secret Histories; that is, of such as relate the secret affairs and transactions of princes; speaking with too much freedom, or too much sincerity, of the manner and conduct of persons in authority, to allow of their being made public. 1769Burke State Nat. Wks. II. 157 Professing even industriously, in this publick matter, to avoid anecdotes, I say nothing of those famous reconciliations and quarrels which weakened the body. 1882Pall Mall G. 23 Oct. 5 To dispel by means of ‘anecdota’ the common impression that Mdme. de Staël and her mother did not get on very well together.
2. a. The narrative of a detached incident, or of a single event, told as being in itself interesting or striking. (At first, an item of gossip.)
1761Yorke in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 483 IV. 429 Monsieur Coccei will tell you all the anecdotes of London better than I can. 1769Junius Lett. xxix. 133 The anecdote was referred to, merely to show how ready a man, etc. 1789Boswell Lett. (1857) 311 It [life of Johnson] will certainly be..full of literary and characteristical anecdotes (which word, by the way, Johnson always condemned, as used in the sense that the French, and we from them, use it, as signifying particulars). 1806M. Edgeworth Forester (1832) 160 Telling little anecdotes to his disadvantage. 1832H. Martineau Demerara i. 12 He told some anecdotes of Alfred's childhood. Mod. An after-dinner anecdote.
b. collect.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iii. ii. 95 A companion who knew everything, everyone, full of wit and anecdote.
c. spec. in Art, used of a painting, etc., that depicts a small incident.
1933C. H. C. Baker Brit. Painting xviii. 188 His [sc. Mulready's] Last In..is typical of his concessions to anecdote, at the expense of design and unity of rhythmic control. 1937S. Sitwell Narr. Pictures ii. 28 Truth to life..he [sc. Hogarth] achieved..by every detail in his anecdote, by the aptness of every small incident that he depicted. Ibid. 29 The utmost detail of anecdote has been lavished upon every incident depicted.
3. Comb., as anecdote-book, anecdote-loving; anecdote-monger, a retailer of anecdotes.
1862Burton Bk.-hunter ii. 125 Irish bulls..manufactured for the..anecdote-books betray their artificial origin. 1836Edin. Rev. LXIII. 364 By no means so explanatory as his anecdote-loving master could desire. 1807Ibid. X. 43 The large tribe of anecdote-mongers. 1850Maurice Mor. Philos. 164 The gossiping anecdote-mongers of later Greece.
▪ II. anecdote, v. rare.|ˈænɪkdəʊt|
[f. the n.]
a. intr. To tell anecdotes.
b. trans. To tell anecdotes to; to entertain with anecdotes; also, to make (a person) the subject of an anecdote or anecdotes.
1786H. More Let. in W. Roberts Mem. H. More (1834) II. ii. 34, I left Mrs. Boscawen to anecdote with them. 1867Howells Ital. Journ. 170 It is a story they tell in Rome, where everybody is anecdoted. 1900Academy 28 Apr. 347/2 His wish not to be interviewed, anecdoted, or otherwise disturbed. |