[ad. L. acclīvitāt-em steepness; f. acclīv-is, acclīv-us; see ACCLIVE and -ITY.] The upward slope of a hill; an ascending slope.
[Not in Cotgrave or Florio, 1611, or Minsheu, 1623.]
1614. Purchas, Pilgr., V. xiii. 511. These bottomes of the sea haue also their … hillocks, mountaines, valleyes, with the Acclivities and Decliuities of places.
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., viii. 290. The additional Acclivity would be imperceptible.
1789–96. J. Morse, Amer. Geog., XI. 319. The ascent to the upper story is not by steps but a paved acclivity.
1850. Merivale, Hist. Rom. Emp. (1865), I. viii. 323. The acclivity was studded with the pleasure-houses of the noble families of Rome.
