a. [See LONG adv. 9.] That lives for a long time.
1382. Wyclif, Isa. ix. 15. The longe lyuende and the wrshepefull.
c. 1500. in Q. Eliz. Acad., 94. The langest leving men.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 157. The admired Wisdome of the long-living Fathers of the elder world.
a. 1680. Butler, Rem. (1759), X. 8. Another … That … in the Register of Fame Had enter’d his long-living Name.
1899. Daily News, 24 May, 2/1. Her Majesty comes, therefore, of a long-living stock.
