anabasis /əˈnæbəsɪs/ noun2 •(historical) A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.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 •(no longer used) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation. formsanabases