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acclivous
"Rising with a slope; sloping (especially steeply) upward, ascending", Mid 18th cent.; earliest use found in Nathan Bailey (d. 1742), lexicographer and schoolmaster. From classical Latin
acclīvus
acclive +
-ous
. Compare earlier acclive,
acclivity
.