anabasis
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From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (“‘a going up, an ascent’”), from ἀναβαίνειν (“‘to go up’”), from βάσις (“‘walk, going’”).
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anabasis (plural anabases)
- A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
- 1989, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
- ‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.’ They looked at him as if he were barmy.
- 1989, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
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- anabasis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- anabasis in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
