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"(by extension, humorous) Any journey downwards or fall."
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"word": "anabasis"
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{
"ref": "1837, Thomas de Quincey, “Revolt of the Tartars”, in Collected Writings, volume 7, published 1890, page 369:",
"text": "2dly, That of a great military expedition, offering the same romantic features[…]which mark[…]the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1868, J. P. Elton, “With the French in Mexico”, in New Monthly Magazine, volume 142, page 123:",
"text": "Mr. Elton had, like the king celebrated in nursery tale, only gone up-hill to come back again. He had travelled over seven hundred miles by straight road to within seven of Monterey, only to turn round and retrace his steps! The most amusing part of the Katabasis was that the townspeople, knowing that the occupation of the French was drawing to a close, no longer showed them any civility.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1878 December, “Collegiana”, in The Beloit College Monthly, volume 20, number 3, page 90:",
"text": "[We] took the evening train for Abelmans. This was the beginning of the katabasis of our party. In the morning we continued it, and by short stages to various points, and in various ways, we gladly made our way homeward, better friends than ever to old Beloit.",
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"A retreat, especially a military one."
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{
"ref": "2008, The Building: A Biography of the Pentagon, page 56:",
"text": "As the French Tenth Army shattered like the porcelain shell of a Faberge egg, British and Polish expeditionary forces that had supported the French hastily withdrew toward the Channel coast—technically it was a katabasis, the opposite of the ancient military term anabasis, which meant a march to the interior.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Victor Davis Hanson, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, page 65:",
"text": "So the core of the work is really a katabasis, detailing the heroic slog through the cold and snows of upper Iraq, Kurdistan, and Armenia to the safety of the Black Sea, ending with a parabasis, along the southern coast of the sea back toward Byzantium and Europe.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, S Bleakley, JS Callahan, Surfing Tropical Beats, page 4:",
"text": "The katabasis of surf travel – moving from the interior to the coast, from shelter to adventure – also educates a mindset.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Robyn Creswell, City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut, page 112:",
"text": "These transitions reflect the deep narrative or rite of passage that structures The Songs of Mihyar as a whole: the katabasis away from Damascus, a national space inhabited by an identifiable collective, toward the coast of international exile.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Brent Mueggenberg, The Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917-1945, page 98:",
"text": "The largest formation to attempt a katabasis across Russia to the Pacific coast was the Czecho-Slovak Army Corps in Russia, better known as the Czecho-Slovak Legion.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022, David Sinclair, The Church of the Serpent:",
"text": "In military terms, the anabasis, the going “up”, was historically the march from the coast to the interior, and so the katabasis was the return march.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"A journey from the interior of a country to the coast."
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{
"ref": "1967, Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, page 1868:",
"text": "Sasttrugi permit the identification of regions of developed katabasis and their direction, and therefore the general relief features in certain Antarctic regions.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1960, N. P. Rusin, “The Radiation Balance of the Snow Surface of Antarctica”, in OG Krichak, editor, Scientific Conference on Problems of Meteorology of the Antarctic (Abstracts of Reports)(USSR)., page 29:",
"text": "In the forward part of the cyclone, drainage katabasis is checked; but its highest intensity is observed in the rear part of the cyclone.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice, page 196:",
"text": "Creating a wind model based on the new maps, Parish determined that the topographical conditions for katabasis applied most dramatically on the Adélie Coast where, like loose strands of a rope knotted together, a string of ice ridges converged, by geological happenstance, on a single, narrow, […]",
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"enpr": "kətă'bəsis"
},
{
"ipa": "/kəˈtæbəsɪs/"
}
],
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{
"word": "catabasis"
}
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "all senses",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "catabase"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "all senses",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "catabasi"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "catabasis"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "catabasi"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "all senses",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "katabasis"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "katabaza"
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{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "all senses",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "catàbbasi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "all senses",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "catábasis"
}
],
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"katabasis"
],
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}
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