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plural anabases
(historical) A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia. quotations
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.
1838, Thomas de Quincey, The Avenger
‘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
The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.
1989, Frederic Stewart Colwell, Rivermen, page 47
(obsolete) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.