-lived

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Anne Gilbert wrote:

#Maybe my age is showing, or something, but I've always said "long-lived"
#with a long I.

Ipso ditto ;-). I've always understood it as = 'having a long life'.

BTW... How many dictionaries persist in listing denominal putative verbs
whose only claim to existence is an adjective "N + ed" meaning approx.
'having or provided with N'?

-- Mark A. Mandel