a. [f. L. acclīv-us + -OUS.] Rising with a slope, sloping upward, ascending.
1731. Bailey [not in 1721].
1771. Sheridan, Aristænetus’ Love Ep., III. 21. The bank acclivous rose, and swelled above.
1850. J. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 294. 329. The tombs at Chalcis … are hewn out in the gently acclivous rocky ground.
