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Adjective
longeval (comparative more longeval, superlative most longeval)
- (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 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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