anastasis

[ uh-nas-tuh-sis ]

noun

, plural a·nas·ta·ses [uh, -, nas, -t, uh, -seez].

1. a representation, in Byzantine art, of Christ harrowing hell.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anastasis¹

< Greek anástasis a raising up, removal. See ana-, stasis

Example Sentences

“There hasn’t been a lot of tooling that targets speeding up AI research,” said Anastasis Germanidis, chief technology officer of the synthetic video startup Runway.

From Los Angeles Times

Jurors heard he had picked her up from school on a couple of occasions while she was wearing her uniform, but his barrister, Anastasis Tasou, said his client was not aware of her age.

From BBC

“The fire burned olive and pine trees in a thick forest. Distressing to see residents running around with hoses, it’s a sad picture,” Anastasis Giolis, vice-prefect of Corinth told state TV ERT.

From Reuters

The standouts include two crimson-and-purple-toned paintings by Katherine Bradford, “Brothers” and “Boxers Under Lights,” in which flat male figures are crossed and stacked like I-beams, and Celeste Dupuy-Spencer’s “Anastasis of the Wild,” in which a gorgeous multicolored wolf trots alongside its own incarnate shadow.

From New York Times

It also says that corresponding author Anastasis Stephanou, who used to work in Latchman’s lab, “regrets the inappropriate figure manipulations of which the co-authors were completely unaware”.

From Nature