Definition of "catabasis"

catabasis

noun
countable and uncountable, plural catabases
1. Alternative spelling of katabasis
  Quotations
  Figure 37 also demonstrates the use of catabasis, or descending motion, in the parts for trumpets, pianos, and low strings.
  2007, Victoria Adamenko, Victoria Bowles, Neo-mythologism in Music, page 101
  The Inferno is one of the most famous examples of catabasis in the Western Tradition.
  2019, Gregory L. Ulmer, KONSULT: Theopraxesis, page 83