metempsychosis
the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
Origin of metempsychosis
1Other words from metempsychosis
- met·em·psy·chic [met-uhm-sahy-kik], /ˌmɛt əmˈsaɪ kɪk/, me·tem·psy·cho·sic, me·tem·psy·cho·si·cal, adjective
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How to use metempsychosis in a sentence
Youth as it opens out discloses The sinister metempsychosis Of lilies dead and turned to roses Red as an angry dawn.
The Burning Wheel | Aldous HuxleyThis connects Buddhism with the doctrine of metempsychosis; a doctrine which the incarnations of Brahminism also suggest.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies | Robert Gordon LathamBefore leaving the problem of the soul Ibn Daud devotes a word to showing that metempsychosis is impossible.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac HusikFor nine years the late Patarah Prabhu existed under this new shape, carrying out the laws of metempsychosis.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyDoes Plato take metempsychosis seriously, as one would be tempted to believe after reading the Republic?
Reincarnation | Th. Pascal
British Dictionary definitions for metempsychosis
/ (ˌmɛtəmsaɪˈkəʊsɪs) /
the migration of a soul from one body to another
the entering of a soul after death upon a new cycle of existence in a new body either of human or animal form
Origin of metempsychosis
1Derived forms of metempsychosis
- metempsychosist, noun
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