acclivated

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acclivated (comparative more acclivated, superlative most acclivated)

  1. Upward-sloping.
    • 1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, volume 1, page 238:
      [] for, where where the ground is wet, and the ridges acclivated, the horses are yoked in a line []
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest [], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 241:
      [] the E.T.A. hilltop overlooking on one side, east, historic Commonwealth Avenue's acclivated migration out of the squalor of lower Brighton []