longeval

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longeval (comparative more longeval, superlative most longeval)

  1. (rare, archaic) Long-lived
    Synonym: longevous
    • a. 1719 (date written), Martinus Scriblerus [pseudonym; Alexander Pope; Thomas Parnell], “An Essay of the Learned Martinus Scriblerus, Concerning the Origin of Sciences”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, [], new edition, volume XVII, London: [] J[oseph] Johnson, [], published 1801, →OCLC, page 81:
      If under their present low circumstances of birth and breeding, and in so short a term of life as is now allotted to them, they so far exceed all beasts, and equal many men; what prodigies may we not conceive of those, who were nati melioribus annis, those primitive, longeval, and antediluvian man-tigers, who first taught science to the world?

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