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‖ anabasis|əˈnæbəsɪs|
[a. Gr. ἀνάβασις ascent, going up, f. ἀνα-βαίν-ειν to go or walk up; cf. βάσις going, walk.]
1. A going up, a march up, a military advance; the special title of the advance of Cyrus the Younger into Asia, as narrated by Xenophon; also transferred to other expeditions.
1706Phillips, Anabasis, an ascending or getting up, an Ascent or Rise. 1840De Quincey Style Wks. XI. 245 The most..productive year throughout his oriental anabasis, was the year 333 before Christ. 1864Spect. 31 Dec. 1491 General Sherman's great anabasis, which the Times has at last ceased to call a retreat.
†2. The course of a disease from the commencement to the climax. Obs.
1706Phillips, Anabasis..in the Art of Physick, the growth or encrease of a disease. 1853Mayne Exp. Lex., ‘An old term.’ 1879Syd. Soc. Lex., ‘Used by Galen.’ |