transmigration

[trans-mahy-grey-shuh n, tranz-]

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noun

the passage of a soul after death into another body; metempsychosis.

Origin of transmigration

1250–1300; Middle English transmigracion < Late Latin trānsmigrātiōn- (stem of trānsmigrātiō) removal. See trans-, migration

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Related Words for transmigration

reincarnation, metempsychosis

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Historical Examples of transmigration

Like the Buddhists, the Hindus believe in the transmigration of souls.
From Pole to Pole
Sven Anders Hedin
During his transmigration he had been briefed for the trouble on Deneb IV.
A Place in the Sun
C.H. Thames
He believed in the transmigration of souls, and the indestructibility of matter.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Had he died on the same day,” you said, “one might have supposed a transmigration.
Practical English Composition: Book II.
Edwin L. Miller
It is not that she has been a hypocrite,—it is that she is a transmigration.
My Novel, Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Word Origin and History for transmigration

c.1300, from Late Latin transmigrationem (nominative transmigratio) "change of country," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin transmigrare "to wander, to migrate," from trans- "over" (see trans-) + migrare "to migrate" (see migration). Originally literal, in reference to the removal of the Jews into the Babylonian captivity; general sense of "passage from one place to another" is attested from late 14c.; sense of "passage of the soul after death into another body" first recorded 1590s.

transmigration in Medicine

transmigration

[trăns′mī-grā′shən, trănz′-]

n.

Movement from one site to another, which may entail the crossing of some usually limiting membrane or barrier, as in diapedesis.