Figure Name anabasis
Source Bullinger (1898) ("anabasis; or, gradual ascent")
Earliest Source None
Synonyms gradual ascent, incrementum, auxesis, anagoge
Etymology Gr. ana "up" and bainein "to go" from basis "a stepping" or "a step"
Type None
Linguistic Domain

1. An Increase of Sense in successive Sentences... [see Etymology] So that Anabasis means "a going up" or "ascent." The FIgure is so called when a writing, speech, or discourse, ascends up step by step, each with an increase of emphasis or sense... When this increase or ascent is from weaker to stronger expression, and is confined to words, it is called Climax. [N.B.-When the sense or graduation is downward instead of upward, it is called Catabasis...]... When the increase is not a mere increase of vehemence, or of evil, but leads up from things inferior to things superior; from things terrestrial to things celestial; from things mundane to things spiritual; the figure is called ANAGOGE... (Bullinger, 455)


1. Ps. 1:1.- "Blessed is the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."
Here is a triple Anabasis depending on Parallelism.
The first are impious, as to their mind.
The second are sinners, who not only think, but carry out the workings of their evil minds. (Bullinger, 455)

Kind Of Series
Part Of
Related Figures climax, parallelism
Confidence Unconfident
Last Editor Ioanna Malton
Confidence Unconfident
Editorial Notes
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