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- adjective Dated form of
anecdotal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by or given to telling anecdotes
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Examples
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This stuff is anecdotical compared to his, how you say, "known unknowns".
Whoops! McCain Accidentally Reveals Flaw In Attack On Obama Over Iran 2009
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My comment failed miserably, because it appeared as if I was talking about a personal, anecdotical case, while Bryan was talking about the fallacy of basing judgments on anecdotes.
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In fact most populations excluding East Eurasians and derived, who aparently suffered a greater bottleneck than the rest have both clades in non-anecdotical ammounts.
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Dr. Sloper had travelled but little, and he took the liberty of not believing everything this anecdotical idler narrated.
Washington Square 2003
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Tunbridge, or as old folks still call it, "the Wells," was a gay, anecdotical resort of the last century, and about as different from the fashionable haunts of the present, as St. James's is to Russel Square, or an old English mansion to the egg-shell architecture of yesterday.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 Various
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None will, however, deny that the work, looking to its anecdotical character, and the great use made in it of sources of information hitherto unemployed, is one of the most amusing as well as interesting histories of that eventful period.
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The English work of Mr. Francis is anecdotical in its character.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The pictorial representations are replete {287} with variety, and the literary illustrations full of a pleasant gossipping anecdotical character.
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Drama -- anecdotical papers on Napoleon and General Jackson and the United
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 Various
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There are several other interesting anecdotical Recollections of Lord
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number Various
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