ANECDOTE

AN'ECDOTE, noun [Gr. to publish, part, given out.]In its original sense, secret history, or facts not generally known. But in more common usage, a particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident; a single passage of private life. Procopius gave the title of anecdotes to a book he published against Justinian and his wife Theodora; and similar collections of incidents in the lives of eminent men are now common.

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anecdote. Anecdote, n. a piece of secret history

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An″ec‐dote (�), n. [[F. anecdote, fr. Gr. � not published; αν̓ priv. + � given out, � to give out, to publish; � out + � to give. See Dose, n.]] 1. 1. pl. Unpublished narratives. Burke.
2. 2. A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.