metempsychosis

[ muh-tem-suh-koh-sis, -temp-, met-uhm-sahy- ]

/ məˌtɛm səˈkoʊ sɪs, -ˌtɛmp-, ˌmɛt əm saɪ- /

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noun, plural me·tem·psy·cho·ses

[muh-tem-suh-koh-seez, -temp-, met-uhm-sahy-]. /məˌtɛm səˈkoʊ siz, -ˌtɛmp-, ˌmɛt əm saɪ-/.

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.

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Origin of metempsychosis

1580–90; <Late Latin <Greek, equivalent to metempsȳchō-, variant stem of metempsȳchoûsthai to pass from one body into another (see met-, em-², psycho-) + -sis-sis

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met·em·psy·chic

[met-uhm-sahy-kik], /ˌmɛt əmˈsaɪ kɪk/, me·tem·psy·cho·sic, me·tem·psy·cho·si·cal, adjective

Words nearby metempsychosis

Metchnikoff, mete, metecdysis, metempirical, metempirics, metempsychosis, metencephalon, Met enkephalin, meteor, meteoric, meteoric shower

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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 Huxley
This 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 Latham
Before leaving the problem of the soul Ibn Daud devotes a word to showing that metempsychosis is impossible.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy|Isaac Husik
For 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 Blavatsky

Does Plato take metempsychosis seriously, as one would be tempted to believe after reading the Republic?
Reincarnation|Th. Pascal

British Dictionary definitions for metempsychosis

metempsychosis

/ (ˌmɛtəmsaɪˈkəʊsɪs) /

noun plural -ses (-siːz)

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

Derived forms of metempsychosis

metempsychosist, noun

Word Origin for metempsychosis

C16: via Late Latin from Greek, from metempsukhousthai, from meta- + -em- in + psukhē soul

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