a. [f. L. longæv-us LONGEVOUS + -AL.] Long-lived, long-lasting.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 48 b/1. A longevalle or longe-continuinge Dysenterye.
1597. M. Bowman, ibid., Ded. ij. The omnipotent and Longevalle Emperioure of the Caelestialle influences.
c. 1714. Arbuthnot & Pope, Mem. Mart. Scriblerus, Ess. Orig. Sci., P.’s Prose Wks. 1741, II. 246. What prodigies may we not conceive of those primitive Longæval and Antediluvian man-tigers, who first taught sciences to the world?
1856. Grindon, Life, viii. (1875), 97. Did man’s daily bread grow on longæval trees, like acorns.
1871. J. Phillips, Geol. Oxford, 249. Bones … quietly reposing in their ‘longæval’ graves.
