Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Passing from one place, body, or state to another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Passing from one body or state to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or undergoing
transmigration , as asoul from one body to another. - adjective Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as between places.
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Examples
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How do we explain that, if we're not transmigratory?
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I have heard that it is easier/better to travel through Belize to Mexico as a tourist, rather than transmigratory, but someone just told me that if we arrive at the Belize border in only 3 days or so, we will be charged the transmigratory fee.
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What you are saying is that the Mexican officials on exit of Mexico will notice that your FMT is only 3 days old (btw, that's really pushing it, the best we've made it from Texas to Chetumal is 4 days driving 12 hours a day but we were in a 27 'rv and don't go as fast as a car would) and charge you a fee as transmigratory?
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I said it was a dangerous error not to admit there were bad people; he, that it was only a confession of blindness on our part, and that we probably called others bad only so far as we were wrapped in ourselves and lacking in the transmigratory forces of imagination.
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Plato believed in an eternal transmigratory soul that moves from body to body through birth, death and rebirth--an eastern import.
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Plato believed in an eternal transmigratory soul that moves from body to body through birth, death and rebirth--an eastern import.
January 2005 2005
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To the Brahmin, the lower animal kingdom is a vast masquerade of transmigratory souls.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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Cebu is a town with a past, like the Ibsen woman; it also has a future; but at present it is in the transmigratory period between the two, and is in consequence odious.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel
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I said it was a dangerous error not to admit there were bad people; he, that it was only a confession of blindness on our part, and that we probably called others bad only so far as we were wrapped in ourselves and lacking in the transmigratory forces of imagination.
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Thus he who desires the world of the fathers, '&c., really declares that the knowledge of Brahman as possessing the power of immediately realising its wishes has for its fruit something lying within the sphere of transmigratory existence, and from this we infer that for him who is desirous of release and of reaching Brahman the object of meditation is not to be found in Brahman in so far as possessing qualities.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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