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a⋅nab⋅a⋅sis

  [uh-nab-uh-sis]
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–noun, plural -ses  [-seez] .
1. a march from the coast into the interior, as that of Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II, described by Xenophon in his historical work Anabasis (379–371 b.c.).
2. Literary. any military expedition or advance.
Compare katabasis.

Origin:
1700–10; < Gk: a stepping up. See ana-, basis
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a·nab·a·sis   (ə-nāb'ə-sĭs)   
n.   pl. a·nab·a·ses (-sēz')

  1. An advance; an expedition.

  2. A large-scale military advance, specifically the Greek mercenary expedition across Asia Minor in 401 B.C. led by Cyrus the Younger of Persia, as described by Xenophon. It was unsuccessful, and the Greeks, led by Xenophon, retreated to the Black Sea.


[Greek, from anabainein, to go up; see anabaena.]
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anabasis 
1706, from Gk. "military expedition," lit. "a going up (from the coast)," especially in reference to the advance of Cyrus the Younger from near the Aegean coast into Asia, and the story of the 10,000 narrated by Xenophon (401 B.C.E.), from ana "up" + bainein "to go" (see come).
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