Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rising with a slope; acclivous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Acclivous.
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- adjective
Acclivous - I. Taylor
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- adjective sloping upward
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Examples
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Then herds of agile creatures like antelopes are described, 'abounding on the acclivitous glades of the woods.'
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They resembled very much some hills of the lower Pyrenees in Spain, only that they were more grassy and less acclivitous, and I named this hill Mount Cole.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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