longeval

English

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lɒnˈd͡ʒiːvəl/
  • Rhymes: -iːvəl

Adjective

longeval (comparative more longeval, superlative most longeval)

  1. (rare) Long-lived; 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 and 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?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “longeval”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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