anecdoten.

Brit.

/ˈanᵻkdəʊt/, U.S.

/ˈænəkˌdoʊt/

Forms: 1600s anecdot, 1700s– anecdote.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French anecdote.

Etymology: < French anecdote private writings on history, not intended for publication (1646 in plural with reference to Procopius's Anecdota, or earlier), curious historical episode or detail (1718), short account of an amusing, interesting, or telling incident or experience (18th cent.) < post-classical Latin anecdota (1555 or earlier as the title of a work by Procopius, 1597 or earlier in the titles of works by other authors) < Byzantine Greek ἀνέκδοτα things unpublished, applied by Procopius to his ‘Unpublished Memoirs’ of the Emperor Justinian, which consisted chiefly of tales of the private life of the court, use as noun of neuter plural of Hellenistic Greek ἀνέκδοτος unpublished, already in ancient Greek in sense ‘not given in marriage’ < ἀν- an- prefix² + ἔκδοτος given up, delivered < ἔκ out of (see ex- prefix²) + Hellenistic Greek δοτός given < the stem of ancient Greek διδόναι to give (see datum n.) + -τος , suffix forming verbal adjectives, after ἐκδιδόναι to give out. Compare later anecdota n.Compare Spanish anecdoto (1730 as adjective, 1740 as noun), Portuguese anedota (1727), Italian aneddoto (a1729), and also German Anekdote (1734; in early use often with Latin inflectional endings). Cicero uses Hellenistic Greek ἀνέκδοτος in the sense ‘unpublished’ in a Latin context ( Letters to Atticus 14. 17. 6).

†1. In plural. Secret, private, or hitherto unpublished episodes or details of history (cf. anecdota n. 1). Also occasionally in singular: a work consisting of such episodes or details. Obsolete.Cf. secret history n. at secret adj. and n. Additions.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > types of historical narrative or work

memoriala1393

commentary1547

church story1563

church history1566

local history1615

anecdotes1649

political history1656

memoirs1659

family history1726

nobiliary1728

sacred history1853

prosopography1896

herstory1932

microhistory1969

1649 J. Evelyn tr. F. de La Mothe Le Vayer Of Liberty & Servitude v. 112 Procopius (or to say better he that hath made the Anecdots under his name).

1700 C. Davenant Disc. Grants & Resumptions v. 446 There is an Anecdote, or secret History belonging to these Grants..; the Writer of these Papers is not quite without Materials for it.

1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 72 Professing even industriously, in this public matter, to avoid anecdotes; I say nothing of those famous reconciliations and quarrels.

1836 in C. Macfarlane Bk. Table-Talk I. 21 Cicero..speaks of a Book of Anecdotes on which he was engaged..as if it was not intended to be ever published.

a. A short account of an amusing, interesting, or telling incident or experience; sometimes with implications of superficiality or unreliability.In quot. 1761: an item of gossip.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun]

storya1425

anecdote1718

anecdota1721

nanny-goat1764

historiette1839

nancy story1858

lie1934

1718 Free-thinker No. 7. 1 I shall..indulge my Readers with two or three short Anecdotes relating to Love and Matrimony.

1761 J. Yorke Let. 8 Jan. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. cccclxxxiii. 429 Monsieur Coccei will tell you all the anecdotes of London better than I can.

1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 231 Telling little anecdotes to his disadvantage.

1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 127 Mr. Ralfs has an abundant store of anecdotes relating to his student-days.

1971 Internat. Herald Tribune 3 June 1 American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts today swapped anecdotes about their experience in space exploration.

2010 Cathedral Music May 53/2 I actually found the anecdote rather reassuring.

b. Writing, content, or information consisting of short interesting, amusing, etc., accounts (see sense 2a); such accounts as a genre.

ΚΠ

1782 Monthly Rev. July 80 The letter..is too full of anecdote, on uncertain information, to be admitted in the Monthly Review.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. ii. 22 A companion who knew every one, every thing, full of wit, and anecdote.

1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance i. 7 Real literature, as distinguished from anecdote, does not concern itself with superficial appearances alone.

1920 S. Lewis Main St. xxxvii. 429 Other towns she came to know by anecdote.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 495/4 The racy blend of anecdote and psychological jargon.

2011 H. Wainer Uneducated Guesses 156 The emotional power of anecdote.

3. Art. A small narrative incident, as depicted in a work of art, esp. a painting; the work of art itself. Also: the depiction of such incidents.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > genre painting > a genre painting > types of

conversation1712

bambocciade1816

bodegon1843

anecdote1867

slice of life1895

veduta1906

moyen-age1913

tranche de vie1934

1867 London Q. Rev. Oct. 100 You paint anecdotes..but seem incapable of treating great scenes.

1933 C. 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.

2006 E. Langmuir Imagining Childhood vii. 180 He calls attention to the ambiguity of even this apparently clearest of painted anecdotes [sc. Jan Steen's The Feast of Saint Nicholas].

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier, as in anecdote book, anecdote collection, etc.; also with participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which anecdote expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in anecdote-loving, anecdote lover, etc.

ΚΠ

1714 tr. Anc. & Mod. Libr. 46 This is an Anecdote Piece [Fr. c'est ici une Pièce Anecdote], of which Historians have had no manner of knowledge.

1787 Public Advertiser 18 Apr. He told me the following story... I find a minute of it in my anecdote-book.

1836 Edinb. Rev. July 364 By no means so explanatory as his anecdote-loving master could desire.

1881 W. D. Adams Treasury Mod. Anecd. Introd. 5 This is not the kind of thing which the genuine anecdote lover at all cares about.

1883 Nation (N.Y.) 6 Dec. 472/3 The dialogue is hardly more connected, or original, or artistic than the anecdote column of a country weekly.

1910 Amer. Anthropologist 12 655/1 Facetious and jesting charms and incantations..from the facetiæ, jest-books, preceptoria, anecdote-collections, sermon-books, etc., of the 16th and 17th centuries and later.

1974 R. MacGillivray Restoration Historians & Eng. Civil War i. 8 A further disadvantage derived from nearness to the war was distortion as a result of anecdote-telling.

2006 F. Portman King Dork 147 Mr. Teone's afterschool Gifted and Talented program might have been of some use as an anecdote factory, but that was about it, and I felt I really didn't need the anecdotes at that price.

C2.

anecdote-monger n. depreciative a person who engages in the telling or retelling of anecdotes.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips > one who spreads rumours

ear-rounder?1387

tidings-makerc1440

runkera1500

rumourera1616

scatter-storya1670

gazette1703

quidnunc1709

anecdote-monger1761

what-now1890

yenta1923

1761 Crit. Rev. Jan. 62 Anecdote-mongers, and minute critics.

1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 164 The gossiping anecdote-mongers of later Greece.

2006 G. Anderson Greek & Rom. Folklore v. 110 We are in the world of the street-corner anecdote-monger.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

anecdotev.

Brit.

/ˈanᵻkdəʊt/, U.S.

/ˈænəkˌdoʊt/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: anecdote n.

Etymology: < anecdote n. Compare earlier anecdoting adj.Compare French anecdoter (1801).

a. intransitive. To tell an anecdote or anecdotes. Also with about.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > tell anecdotes [verb (intransitive)]

anecdote1786

lie1935

1786 H. More Let. in W. Roberts Mem. H. More (1834) II. ii. 34 I left Mrs. Boscawen to anecdote with them.

1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone x. 88 I am in the prosaic vein, it seems, anecdoting like the old knave of clubs.

1975 I. McEwan First Love, Last Rites 17 I can see them now, one of my uncles or my father.., reminiscing, anecdoting and advising me on Life.

1998 B. Roberts Through Keyhole iii. 85 To illustrate its effectiveness Cats anecdoted about the ancient Roman soldier, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.

b. transitive. To tell an anecdote or anecdotes to (a person); to regale with anecdotes. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > tell anecdotes to or make subject of [verb (transitive)]

anecdote1831

anecdote1900

1900 Academy 28 Apr. 347/2 His wish not to be interviewed, anecdoted, or otherwise disturbed.

1997 B. Cohen in L. Stevens Pub Fiction 202 Every senior doctor in the place had anecdoted me about the mnemonics he or she devised to remember the musculature of the hand.

2. transitive. To make (someone or something) the subject of anecdote; to describe in an anecdotal manner.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > tell anecdotes to or make subject of [verb (transitive)]

anecdote1831

anecdote1900

1831 Globe 10 June 1/3 His acts of generosity even, were puffed, paragraphed, and anecdoted, ad infinitum.

1940 A. M. Klein Hath not Jew 71 And Christians, anecdoting us, will say: ‘Mr. and Mrs. Klein—the Jews, you know...’

2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 14 Aug. 13 Almost any writer who has graced the Riviera is quoted and anecdoted.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	anecdote
释义	anecdoten. Brit. /ˈanᵻkdəʊt/, U.S. /ˈænəkˌdoʊt/ Forms: 1600s anecdot, 1700s– anecdote. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French anecdote. Etymology: < French anecdote private writings on history, not intended for publication (1646 in plural with reference to Procopius's Anecdota, or earlier), curious historical episode or detail (1718), short account of an amusing, interesting, or telling incident or experience (18th cent.) < post-classical Latin anecdota (1555 or earlier as the title of a work by Procopius, 1597 or earlier in the titles of works by other authors) < Byzantine Greek ἀνέκδοτα things unpublished, applied by Procopius to his ‘Unpublished Memoirs’ of the Emperor Justinian, which consisted chiefly of tales of the private life of the court, use as noun of neuter plural of Hellenistic Greek ἀνέκδοτος unpublished, already in ancient Greek in sense ‘not given in marriage’ < ἀν- an- prefix² + ἔκδοτος given up, delivered < ἔκ out of (see ex- prefix²) + Hellenistic Greek δοτός given < the stem of ancient Greek διδόναι to give (see datum n.) + -τος , suffix forming verbal adjectives, after ἐκδιδόναι to give out. Compare later anecdota n.Compare Spanish anecdoto (1730 as adjective, 1740 as noun), Portuguese anedota (1727), Italian aneddoto (a1729), and also German Anekdote (1734; in early use often with Latin inflectional endings). Cicero uses Hellenistic Greek ἀνέκδοτος in the sense ‘unpublished’ in a Latin context ( Letters to Atticus 14. 17. 6). †1. In plural. Secret, private, or hitherto unpublished episodes or details of history (cf. anecdota n. 1). Also occasionally in singular: a work consisting of such episodes or details. Obsolete.Cf. secret history n. at secret adj. and n. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > types of historical narrative or work memoriala1393 commentary1547 church story1563 church history1566 local history1615 anecdotes1649 political history1656 memoirs1659 family history1726 nobiliary1728 sacred history1853 prosopography1896 herstory1932 microhistory1969 1649 J. Evelyn tr. F. de La Mothe Le Vayer Of Liberty & Servitude v. 112 Procopius (or to say better he that hath made the Anecdots under his name). 1700 C. Davenant Disc. Grants & Resumptions v. 446 There is an Anecdote, or secret History belonging to these Grants..; the Writer of these Papers is not quite without Materials for it. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 72 Professing even industriously, in this public matter, to avoid anecdotes; I say nothing of those famous reconciliations and quarrels. 1836 in C. Macfarlane Bk. Table-Talk I. 21 Cicero..speaks of a Book of Anecdotes on which he was engaged..as if it was not intended to be ever published. 2. a. A short account of an amusing, interesting, or telling incident or experience; sometimes with implications of superficiality or unreliability.In quot. 1761: an item of gossip. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun] storya1425 anecdote1718 anecdota1721 nanny-goat1764 historiette1839 nancy story1858 lie1934 1718 Free-thinker No. 7. 1 I shall..indulge my Readers with two or three short Anecdotes relating to Love and Matrimony. 1761 J. Yorke Let. 8 Jan. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. cccclxxxiii. 429 Monsieur Coccei will tell you all the anecdotes of London better than I can. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 231 Telling little anecdotes to his disadvantage. 1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 127 Mr. Ralfs has an abundant store of anecdotes relating to his student-days. 1971 Internat. Herald Tribune 3 June 1 American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts today swapped anecdotes about their experience in space exploration. 2010 Cathedral Music May 53/2 I actually found the anecdote rather reassuring. b. Writing, content, or information consisting of short interesting, amusing, etc., accounts (see sense 2a); such accounts as a genre. ΚΠ 1782 Monthly Rev. July 80 The letter..is too full of anecdote, on uncertain information, to be admitted in the Monthly Review. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. ii. 22 A companion who knew every one, every thing, full of wit, and anecdote. 1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance i. 7 Real literature, as distinguished from anecdote, does not concern itself with superficial appearances alone. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xxxvii. 429 Other towns she came to know by anecdote. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 495/4 The racy blend of anecdote and psychological jargon. 2011 H. Wainer Uneducated Guesses 156 The emotional power of anecdote. 3. Art. A small narrative incident, as depicted in a work of art, esp. a painting; the work of art itself. Also: the depiction of such incidents. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > genre painting > a genre painting > types of conversation1712 bambocciade1816 bodegon1843 anecdote1867 slice of life1895 veduta1906 moyen-age1913 tranche de vie1934 1867 London Q. Rev. Oct. 100 You paint anecdotes..but seem incapable of treating great scenes. 1933 C. 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. 2006 E. Langmuir Imagining Childhood vii. 180 He calls attention to the ambiguity of even this apparently clearest of painted anecdotes [sc. Jan Steen's The Feast of Saint Nicholas]. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier, as in anecdote book, anecdote collection, etc.; also with participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which anecdote expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in anecdote-loving, anecdote lover, etc. ΚΠ 1714 tr. Anc. & Mod. Libr. 46 This is an Anecdote Piece [Fr. c'est ici une Pièce Anecdote], of which Historians have had no manner of knowledge. 1787 Public Advertiser 18 Apr. He told me the following story... I find a minute of it in my anecdote-book. 1836 Edinb. Rev. July 364 By no means so explanatory as his anecdote-loving master could desire. 1881 W. D. Adams Treasury Mod. Anecd. Introd. 5 This is not the kind of thing which the genuine anecdote lover at all cares about. 1883 Nation (N.Y.) 6 Dec. 472/3 The dialogue is hardly more connected, or original, or artistic than the anecdote column of a country weekly. 1910 Amer. Anthropologist 12 655/1 Facetious and jesting charms and incantations..from the facetiæ, jest-books, preceptoria, anecdote-collections, sermon-books, etc., of the 16th and 17th centuries and later. 1974 R. MacGillivray Restoration Historians & Eng. Civil War i. 8 A further disadvantage derived from nearness to the war was distortion as a result of anecdote-telling. 2006 F. Portman King Dork 147 Mr. Teone's afterschool Gifted and Talented program might have been of some use as an anecdote factory, but that was about it, and I felt I really didn't need the anecdotes at that price. C2. anecdote-monger n. depreciative a person who engages in the telling or retelling of anecdotes. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips > one who spreads rumours ear-rounder?1387 tidings-makerc1440 runkera1500 rumourera1616 scatter-storya1670 gazette1703 quidnunc1709 anecdote-monger1761 what-now1890 yenta1923 1761 Crit. Rev. Jan. 62 Anecdote-mongers, and minute critics. 1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 164 The gossiping anecdote-mongers of later Greece. 2006 G. Anderson Greek & Rom. Folklore v. 110 We are in the world of the street-corner anecdote-monger. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). anecdotev. Brit. /ˈanᵻkdəʊt/, U.S. /ˈænəkˌdoʊt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: anecdote n. Etymology: < anecdote n. Compare earlier anecdoting adj.Compare French anecdoter (1801). 1. a. intransitive. To tell an anecdote or anecdotes. Also with about. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > tell anecdotes [verb (intransitive)] anecdote1786 lie1935 1786 H. More Let. in W. Roberts Mem. H. More (1834) II. ii. 34 I left Mrs. Boscawen to anecdote with them. 1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone x. 88 I am in the prosaic vein, it seems, anecdoting like the old knave of clubs. 1975 I. McEwan First Love, Last Rites 17 I can see them now, one of my uncles or my father.., reminiscing, anecdoting and advising me on Life. 1998 B. Roberts Through Keyhole iii. 85 To illustrate its effectiveness Cats anecdoted about the ancient Roman soldier, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. b. transitive. To tell an anecdote or anecdotes to (a person); to regale with anecdotes. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > tell anecdotes to or make subject of [verb (transitive)] anecdote1831 anecdote1900 1900 Academy 28 Apr. 347/2 His wish not to be interviewed, anecdoted, or otherwise disturbed. 1997 B. Cohen in L. Stevens Pub Fiction 202 Every senior doctor in the place had anecdoted me about the mnemonics he or she devised to remember the musculature of the hand. 2. transitive. To make (someone or something) the subject of anecdote; to describe in an anecdotal manner. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > tell anecdotes to or make subject of [verb (transitive)] anecdote1831 anecdote1900 1831 Globe 10 June 1/3 His acts of generosity even, were puffed, paragraphed, and anecdoted, ad infinitum. 1940 A. M. Klein Hath not Jew 71 And Christians, anecdoting us, will say: ‘Mr. and Mrs. Klein—the Jews, you know...’ 2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 14 Aug. 13 Almost any writer who has graced the Riviera is quoted and anecdoted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1649v.1786
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