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Definition of Longevous
1. a. Living a long time; of great age.
Definition of Longevous
1. Adjective. Long-lasting, especially of life. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Longevous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Longevous
Literary usage of Longevous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1890)
"It is doubtful whether there is another instance on record, since the days of
the patriarchs, in which six longevous brothers mated with six ..."
2. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... and overwhelmed their memories with themselves; and so shut up the first
windows of Time, leaving no histories of those longevous generations, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"Except in peculiarly irritable habits, intellectual meditation, in the age of
adolescence and subsequently, can scarcely fail to be wholesome and longevous, ..."
4. The Elizabethan Playhouse: And Other Studies by William John Lawrence (1912)
"... does dispute is that he wrote the famous and longevous score first published
under his name by Boyce in 1750. ..."
5. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"For the first time since Malone established a longevous, slavishly-followed
precedent by inexpert handling of the tangled skein of early theatrical finance, ..."
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