anecdotic

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Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.

From Little Eyolf by Archer, William

I can, it is true, be witty, anecdotic, and agreeable; I can spice conversation with epigram, and illustrate argument by apt example; but my forte is tenderness.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

The anecdotic life of Herschel, however, is now closed.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert

In the Renaissance painters, on the other hand, with their descriptive preoccupations, their literary and anecdotic interests, he could see nothing but vulgarity and muddle.

From Art by Bell, Clive

The naive, picturesque, and anecdotic illustrations of common life, which are so plentiful in Egypt, are almost completely wanting to the art of Chaldæa.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir