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Definition of Metempsychosis

1. Noun. After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body.

Definition of Metempsychosis

1. n. 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.

Definition of Metempsychosis

1. Noun. Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

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Definition of Metempsychosis

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Medical Definition of Metempsychosis

1. 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. Origin: NL, fr. Gr.; beyond, over + to animate; in + soul. See Psychology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Metempsychosis

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1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"If we seek for the origin of the opinion of the metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls into other bodies, we must plunge into the remote«! antiquity ..."

2. Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology by Edward Payson Evans (1898)
"metempsychosis. Universality of the belief in the transmigration of souls. ... Persistence of the dogma of metempsychosis. Traces of it in Judaism and ..."

3. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1874)
"74 Profound significance of the dogma of the metempsychosis 75 A revolt ... 76 Religion of the Brahman sages—a compromise between the metempsychosis and the ..."

4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"metempsychosis. IF we except the belief of a future remuneration beyond this life for suffering virtue, and retribution for successful crimes, ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"THE metempsychosis (1) FOR one brief hour we tarry with our loves. ... THE metempsychosis [It is still a familiar sight in a German village to see the women ..."

6. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1833)
"metempsychosis. IF we except the belief of a future remuneration beyond this life for suffering virtue, and retribution for successful crimes, ..."

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