英语词汇“longevous”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

longevous

释义

longevous, -ævous, a. Now rare.|lɒnˈdʒiːvəs|
[f. L. longæv-us, f. long-us long a. + æv-um age.]
Long-lived; living or having lived to a great age.
1680Aubrey Let. in Lives (1813) II. 198, I come of a longævous race.1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. iii. §1 The..Element of Water..so shut up the first Windows of Time, leaving no Histories of those longevous generations.1699Evelyn Acetaria 138 The longævous Elephant.1701Grew Cosm. Sacra iv. viii. 263 Cedar wood..is longevous, and an Evergreen.1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 391 The longevous antediluvian.1860Reade Cloister & H. IV. 432 Eli and Catherine lived to a great age... Giles also was longævous.1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 198 He begins to feel dignified and longævous like a tree.

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