anabasis
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[edit] Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (“a going up, an ascent”), from ἀναβαίνειν (“to go up”), from ἀνά (ana, “up”) + βάσις (“walk, going”).
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[edit] Noun
anabasis (plural anabases)
- A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
- 1838, Thomas de Quincey, The Avenger:
- During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty−second year.
- 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, Frederic Stewart Colwell, Rivermen, p. 47:
- The Wordsworthian journey to the source [...] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.
- 1838, Thomas de Quincey, The Avenger:
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[edit] Translations
military march up-country
[edit] External links
- anabasis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- anabasis in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
