anecdotic
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The second class of old people are not anecdotic; they are rather hearers than talkers, listening to the young with an amused and critical attention.
From Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson
Neither of the development of national life, nor of the clash of nations, did he really know anything that was not inessential and anecdotic.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
The figures in the former position are religious and supernatural, those in the interior historical and anecdotic.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
The anecdotic history, more or less authentic, of the Ettrick Shepherd would fill volumes, and I must try to give some of the cream of it presently.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
The anecdotic life of Herschel, however, is now closed.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
