a. [f. AGE sb. + LONG.] Long with the length of an age, long as an age; lasting for an age.

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1810.  Southey, Kehama, XXIII. v. Wks. VIII. 189. Where the heavenly Hours Weave the vast circle of his age-long day.

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1862.  Lytton, Strange Story (1866), II. lxxxvii. 355. The age-long trees in the forest.

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1878.  L. Morris, Hades, 24. Self-inflicted death and age-long woe.

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