[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 op, a military advance; the special title of the advance of Cyrus the Younger into Asia, as narrated by Xenophon; also transferred to other expeditions.
1706. Phillips, Anabasis, an ascending or getting up, an Ascent or Rise.
1840. De Quincey, Style, Wks. XI. 245. The most … productive year throughout his oriental anabasis, was the year 333 before Christ.
1864. Spectator, 31 Dec., 1491/1. General Sherman’s great anabasis, which the Times has at last ceased to call a retreat, ended in his gaining the sea coast of Georgia.
† 2. The course of a disease from the commencement to the climax. Obs.
1706. Phillips, Anabasis … in the Art of Physick, the growth or encrease of a disease.
1853. Mayne, Exp. Lex., ‘An old term.’
1879. Syd. Soc. Lex., ‘Used by Galen.’
