longeval
adj/lɒnˈd͡ʒiːvəl/
- If under their present low circumstances of birth and breeding, and in so short a term of life as is now allotted to them, they so far exceed all beasts, and equal many men; what prodigies may we not conceive of those, who were nati melioribus annis, those primitive, longeval, and antediluvian man-tigers, who first taught science to the world?a. 1719 (date written), Martinus Scriblerus [pseudonym; Alexander Pope; Thomas Parnell], “An Essay of the Learned Martinus Scriblerus, Concerning the Origin of Sciences”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XVII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 81: