a. [f. late L. longiman-us (f. long-us LONG a. + manus hand) + -OUS.] Long-handed; Zool. applied to certain apes. † fig. Far-reaching. Obs.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. xix. 384. The villany of this Christian exceeded the persecution of Heathens, whose malice was never so Longimanous as to reach the soul of their enemies.
1650. Charleton, Van Helmont’s Tern. Paradoxes, Prol. D j b. Whether the Sanative Faculty of Vitriol, may not be conceded so longimanous and extensive, as to produce the same effect, at distance.
1856. in Mayne, Expos. Lex.
