Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rising, as the slope of a hill: the opposite of
declivous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to
declivous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
sloping upward; rising as ahillside .
Etymologies
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Latin acclivis and acclivus
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Examples
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The eastern part of this valley is hilly, and rapidly acclivous towards the Appalachian mountains.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823
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