英和和英

形容詞

longeve (comparative more longeve, superlative most longeve)

1. (largely, obsolete, まれに) Longevous, long-lived.
   • 1673-4, Grew, Veget. Trunks, iii: According as the Tree is less or more Longæve.
   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, page 345:

     But the only use which that Philosopher makes of this Story is this, to prove that Demons having Bodies as well as men, (though of a different kind from them かつ much more longeve) yet were notwithstanding Mortal : […]

   • 1900, Walt Whitman, The Lamp, page 128:

     Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality, / And helps its present life to health […]

   • 2003, Paolo Santangelo, Sentimental Education in Chinese History, page 444:

     The most long-lived men can arrive up to one hundred years, while the medium and less longeve respectively can live up to eighty and sixty years.