declivitous

Adjective

declivitous (comparative more declivitous, superlative most declivitous)

1. Descending gradually; sloping; downhill.
   • Where the ground is declivitous, it is requisite that the hole should be deeper, in addition to which it should be artificially elevated on the edge of the lower side.1855, Pliny (the Elder.), The Natural History of Pliny - Volume 3, page 501
   • The forest covers a declivitous slope, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, and extends to the verge of the steep descent into the table-land of Wynaad.1859, Clements R. Markham, “On the Introduction of the Cinchona Plant into India”, in Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, page 352
2. At lower levels; lowly.
   • In France, Savoy, and the Southern Low Countries the structure of lordship was declivitous during the eleventh , twelfth , and thirteenth centuries; in other words, seigneurial rights and obligations were greater at lower levels of the hierarchy .1995, Samuel Clark, State and Status, page 149
   • I, for one, and certainly Aera, do not feel declivitous.2011, Kyle Lance Proudfoot, The Black Dungeon Doorway, page 68