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metempsychosis

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Noun
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me=tem=psy=cho=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

metempsychosisn. [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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

metempsychosis, n. (pl. -psychoses)
1 the supposed transmigration of the soul of a human being or animal at death into a new body of the same or a different species.
2 an instance of this.

Derivative
metempsychosist n.
Etymology
LL f. Gk metempsukhosis (as META-, EN-(2), psukhe soul)

ROGET THESAURUS

metempsychosis

Change

N change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution, diversion, break, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, transmutation, deoxidization, transubstantiation, mutagenesis transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis, avatar, alterative, conversion, revolution &c (sudden or radical change), inversion, displacement, transference, changeableness, tergiversation, changed, newfangled, changeable, transitional, modifiable, alterative, mutatis mutandis, Int, quantum mutatus!, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, nous avons change tout cela, tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, non sum qualis eram, casaque tourner, corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur, in statu quo ante bellum, still ending and beginning still, vox audita perit littera scripta manet.


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