Longeve
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Longeve is an adjective meaning (largely, obsolete, uncommon) Longevous, long-lived.
Meaning
(largely, obsolete, uncommon) Longevous, long-lived.
Example Sentences
1673-4, Grew, Veget. Trunks, iii: According as the Tree is less or more Longæve.
The most long-lived men can arrive up to one hundred years, while the medium and less longeve respectively can live up to eighty and sixty years.
Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality, / And helps its present life to health […]
But the only use which that Philosopher makes of this Story is this, to prove that Demons having Bodies as well as men, (though of a different kind from them and much more longeve) yet were notwithstanding Mortal : […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include longaevous, longevious, longaeval, lengthful, lengthly, grandevous.
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