Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To migrate.
  • intransitive verb To pass into another body after death. Used of the soul.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To migrate; pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residing in it.
  • To pass from one body into another; be transformed; specifically, to become incarnate in a different body; metempsychosize.
  • To cause to pass or migrate from one region or state of existence to another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.
  • intransitive verb To pass from one body or condition into another.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To migrate to another country.
  • verb intransitive, of the soul To pass into another body after death.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
  • verb be born anew in another body after death

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin trānsmigrāre, trānsmigrāt- : trāns-, trans- + migrāre, to migrate; see migrate.]

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Examples

  • Characters have the option to "transmigrate" to a new class or an improved version of their existing class.

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  • Characters have the option to "transmigrate" to a new class or an improved version of their existing class.

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  • Facebook Connect is another way to transmigrate information/news stories and web presence to multiple places.

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  • The plan was that the marquise would die in childbirth and her soul transmigrate to the immortal infant, of which Casanova would then be guardian.

    Busy, Busy, Busy Anthony Gottlieb 2008

  • After the body loses its harmony and dies, this command center soul survives to transmigrate into the hearts of other animals and men.

    Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008

  • Ergo, we can flip from enactments of explicit porn on one channel, to explicit re-enactments of pornographic Christian prophecy on another; we can transmigrate from fake sin to phony salvation, in an instant ...

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  • In the Hindu temple it is taught that ancestral spirits must be fed daily, that souls transmigrate, and so on.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • Anthropologists report that people of different cultures hold beliefs that seem bizarre to us one must feed ancestral spirits daily; souls transmigrate, and draw conclusions by canons whose logic we tail to see.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • In the Hindu temple it is taught that ancestral spirits must be fed daily, that souls transmigrate, and so on.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • Anthropologists report that people of different cultures hold beliefs that seem bizarre to us one must feed ancestral spirits daily; souls transmigrate, and draw conclusions by canons whose logic we tail to see.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

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