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metempsychosis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Metempsychosis  \Me*temp`sy*cho"sis\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  ?;  ? 
  beyond,  over  +  ?  to  animate;  ?  in  +  ?  soul.  See 
  {Psychology}.] 
  The  passage  of  the  soul,  as  an  immortal  essence,  at  the  death 
  of  the  animal  body  it  had  inhabited,  into  another  living 
  body,  whether  of  a  brute  or  a  human  being  transmigration  of 
  souls.  --Sir  T.  Browne. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  metempsychosis 
  n  :  after  death  the  soul  begins  a  new  cycle  of  existence  in 
  another  human  of  animal  body  [syn:  {rebirth}] 




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