Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The transference of the elements of one body into another body and their conversion into its substance, as by decomposition and assimilation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.
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- noun biology The
assimilation by onebody ororganism of theelements of another.
Etymologies
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Latin, a change of body (by the soul), from Ancient Greek.
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Examples
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Firstly, there is the entry — metensomatosis — of a soul present in body by change from one [wholly material] frame to another or the entry — not known as metensomatosis, since the nature of the earlier habitacle is not certainly definable — of a soul leaving an aerial or fiery body for one of earth.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Although _metensomatosis_ (re-embodiment of the soul), _i. e._, the true teaching of Origen, was not clearly expounded, it considerably influenced the early Christian philosophers, and was favourably received up to the time of its condemnation by the Synod of
Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal
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