long-living, a.
[See long adv. 9.]
That lives for a long time.
| 1382 Wyclif Isa. ix. 15 The longe lyuende and the wrshepefull. c 1500 in Q. Eliz. Acad. 94 The langest leving men. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 157 The admired Wisdome of the long-living Fathers of the elder world. a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) X. 8 Another..That..in the Register of Fame Had enter'd his long-living Name. 1899 Daily News 24 May, Her Majesty comes..of a long-living stock. |