Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inclined; prone; disposed; proclivous.
  • To incline; make prone or disposed.
  • To be prone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.

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  • adjective Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.

Etymologies

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Latin proclivis ("sloping, inclined").

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Examples

  • Manet vero tabes pituitaria: manet temperamentum in catarrhos proclive.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Lusitani, peritique earum regionum cetrati citerioris Hispaniæ, consectabantur, quibus erat proclive transnare flumen, quod consuetudo eorum omnium est, ut sine utribus ad exercitum non eant, (Cf. _Herzog. _, qui longam huic loco adnotationem adscripsit), _Curt.

    Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851 Various

  • Sed tamen S. Basilii testimonium cum sua sponte magni est momenti (non enim ut in dijudicandis Marcelli scriptis, ita in ejusmodi facto proclive fuit errare), tum etiam hoc argumento confirmatur quod Athanasius extremis vitae suae annis Marcellum a communione sua removerit.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • What I tried to express above, however, was the hypothesis that rich people would not be rich unless they were inherently proclive towards doing money-making things, so they can be taxed with less deadweight loss than other people, for the same reasons that addictive substances can be taxed with low deadweight loss: just as the junkie needs a fix, even if the price is higher, the rich man needs to make more money than the next rich man, even if it's harder for both those rich man to make money at all.

    Envy and Resentment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Hanc, cui daturu’s hanc, iube petere atque orare mecum. nam istuc proclive est, quo iubes me plane collocare.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • (ji) Abruptis qus tupererant Hovihut* Volgo tuperfuerant z motavit Ryckius cz Flor. tn quo pfo abruptit scribitur ar* ruptiti unde proclive est legere arreptity i«e. raptim abdu - dis navibus qu« ab hosttbus captc aut merss non erant.

    C. Cornelii Taciti Opera Cornelius Tacitus , Cayo Cornelio Tácito , Gabriel Brotier , Tommaso Bettinelli 1783

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