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anabasis


a-nab′a-sis

(ȧ-năb′ȧ-sĭs)
,
Noun.
[Gr.
ἀνάβασις
, fr.
ἀναβαίνειν
to go up;
ἀνά
up +
βαίνειν
to go.]
1.
A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called “The Anabasis.”
The
anabasis
of Napoleon.
De Quincey.
2.
(Med.)
The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
[Obs.]
AS

Definition 2024


anabasis

anabasis

English

Noun

anabasis (plural anabases)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.

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External links

  • anabasis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • anabasis in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈna.ba.sis/, [aˈna.ba.sɪs]

Noun

anabasis f (genitive anabasis); third declension

  1. a plant: horse-tail
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative anabasis anabasēs
genitive anabasis anabasium
dative anabasī anabasibus
accusative anabasem anabasēs
ablative anabase anabasibus
vocative anabasis anabasēs

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