[f. LIFE sb. + -ED2.] Possessed of or endowed with a certain kind or length of life. Also LONG-LIVED, SHORT-LIVED adjs.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (1860), 13. If you pearce his hart, you can doo him little harme, for he is liude like a Cat.
1825. Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 743. Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old witch, tough-lived as a turtle.
