Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To transfer from one body to another, as the soul; cause to undergo metempsychosis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another.
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- verb transitive To
translate ortransfer (e.g. thesoul ) from onebody to another.
Etymologies
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See metempsychosis.
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(Gr. meta empsychos, Lat. metempsychosis: Fr. metempsychose: Ger. seelenwanderung).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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