Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Transmigration of the soul; metempsychosis; also, any doctrine or theory of reincarnation (as in the following extract).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The conveyance of a soul from one body to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
conveyance of asoul from onebody to another.
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Examples
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Dream not of any kind of metempsychosis or transanimation, but into thine own body, and that after a long time; and then also unto wail or bliss, according to thy first and fundamental life.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Dream not of any kind of metempsychosis [182] or transanimation, but into thine own body, and that after a long time; and then also unto wail or bliss, according to thy first and fundamental life.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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