transmigrate

[ trans-mahy-greyt, tranz- ]

/ trænsˈmaɪ greɪt, trænz- /

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verb (used without object), trans·mi·grat·ed, trans·mi·grat·ing.

to move or pass from one place to another.

to migrate from one country to another in order to settle there.

(of the soul) to be reborn after death in another body.

verb (used with object), trans·mi·grat·ed, trans·mi·grat·ing.

to cause to transmigrate, as a soul; transfer.

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Origin of transmigrate

1400–50; late Middle English <Latin trānsmigrātus (past participle of trānsmigrāre to depart, migrate). See trans-, migrate

OTHER WORDS FROM transmigrate

trans·mi·gra·tor, nountrans·mi·gra·to·ry

[trans-mahy-gruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, tranz-], /trænsˈmaɪ grəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, trænz-/, trans·mi·gra·tive, adjectiveun·trans·mi·grat·ed, adjective

Words nearby transmigrate

transmarine, transmasculine, transmembrane, transmethylation, transmigrant, transmigrate, transmigration, transmisogyny, transmissible, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, transmission

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How to use transmigrate in a sentence

They think the soul will transmigrate many times before being finally united to Brahma.
The Student's Mythology|Catherine Ann White
When the Lama dies, his soul enters immediately into the body of some child, so that he is simply said to transmigrate.
The Student's Mythology|Catherine Ann White
I am sure all this is because you think you will transmigrate into a black spider!
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan|Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
He commanded each of them to transmigrate from one human body into another, until their tasks were done.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)|Augustus De Morgan

It cannot transmigrate—cannot carry along with it the law which protects it: and if it could, what law would it carry?
Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2)|Thomas Hart Benton

British Dictionary definitions for transmigrate

transmigrate

/ (ˌtrænzmaɪˈɡreɪt) /

verb (intr)

to move from one place, state, or stage to another

(of souls) to pass from one body into another at death

Derived forms of transmigrate

transmigration, nountransmigrational, adjectivetransmigrative, adjectivetransmigrator, noun

transmigratory, adjective

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