A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.
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1. A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis."
2. The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
Anabasis
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ANABASIS(άνάβασις, a march into the interior; from άναβαίνω, to ascend), the title given by Xenophon to his narrative of the expedition of Cyrus the younger against his brother, Artaxerxes of Persia, 40Γb,c., and adopted by Arrian for his history of the expedition of Alexander the Great. (See Ainsworth’s Trav. in Track of Ten Thousand Greeks: Journal of Roy. Geog. Soc. 1870, p. 463.)
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 787
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