An intlination, bowing, or bending. Alterna inclinatione egerunt scrobem. Plin. By going vppe and downe of the saw, they cast out the saw dust. Corporis inclinatio. Quint. Bending of the bodle. Fortis ac vitilis laterum inclinatio. Quin. Inclinationes rerum & temporum. Cic. Mutations or changes of states and tintes. In te vnum omnis inclinatio incumbet. Cic. Al the mischief will fall vpon thee. Inclinatio animorum plebis ad sustinendam inopiam, &c. Liu. The bending of the peoples mindes. Temporis inclinatio. Cicer. The changing or alteration of time. Causæ inclinatio, Quin. Repencina voluntaturn inclinatio Cic. Voluntatis inclinatione propendére in aliquem. Ci. To bend with good fauoure and affeccion toward one. Inclinatio ad meliorem spem. Cic. Inclinatio cœli, Quam quidam aspectum & horrizonta vooãt Gell.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: (corporis) ingressus, cursus, accubitio, inclinatio, sessio, etc., Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 94: corporis, Quint. 1, 11, 16: fortis ac virilis laterum, id. ib. 18: incumbentis in mulierculam, id. 11, 3, 90: alternā egerunt scobem, Plin. 16, 43, 83, 227: merso navigio inclinatione lateris unius, id. 8, 51, 77, 208.— In plur.: variis trepidantium inclinationibus, Tac. H. 2, 35; Plin. 37, 10, 58, 160.—

B. In partic.: caeli, a transl. of the Gr. kli/ma, the inclination or slope of the earth from the equator to the pole, a parallel of latitude, clime, Vitr. 1, 1; Gell. 14, 1, 8; for which, mundi, Vitr. 6, 1.—

II. Trop., an inclination, tendency.

A. In gen.: ad meliorem spem, Cic. Sest. 31, 67: crudelitas est inclinatio animi ad asperiora, Sen. Clem. 2, 4 med.: alii (loci communes) ad totius causae inclinationem (faciunt), Quint. 5, 13, 57.—

B. In partic., inclination, bias, favor: voluntatis, Cic. de Or. 2, 29, 129; cf. voluntatum, id. Mur. 26, 53: judicum ad aliquem, Quint. 6, 1, 20: principum inclinatio in hos, offensio in illos, Tac. A. 4, 20: utendum ea inclinatione Caesar ratus, id. ib. 1, 28: senatus, id. ib. 2, 38: animorum, Liv. 44, 31, 1: in aliquem, Tac. H. 2, 92 —

C. Transf.

1. (Qs., a leaning or bending out of its former position; hence.) An alteration, change: communium temporum, Cic. Balb. 26, 58: an ignoratis, populi Romani vectigalia perlevi saepe momento fortunae inclinatione temporis pendere? id. Agr. 2, 29, 80; cf. id. Phil. 5, 10, 26: hoc amplius Theophrastus (scripsit), quae essent in re publica rerum inclinationes et momenta temporum, id. Fin. 5, 4, 11: inclinationes temporum atque momenta, id. Fam. 6, 10, 5; cf. id. Planc. 39, 94.—

2. Rhet. t. t.: vocis, the play of the voice, its elevation and depression in impassioned speech, Cic. Brut. 43, 158; plur., Quint. 11, 3, 168. —

3. In the old gram. lang., the formation or derivation of a word, Varr. L. L. 9, 1 Müll.