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Definition of Transmigration
1. Noun. The passing of a soul into another body after death.
Definition of Transmigration
1. n. The act of passing from one country to another; migration.
Definition of Transmigration
1. Noun. Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration. ¹
2. Noun. The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transmigration
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Transmigration
1. Movement from one site to another; may entail the crossing of some usually limiting barrier, as in the passage of blood cells through the walls of the vessels (diapedesis). Origin: L. Trans-migro, pp. -atus, to remove from one place to another (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transmigration
Literary usage of Transmigration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Meno of Plato by Plato, E. Seymer Thompson (1901)
"transmigration implies not merely a dream-like echo of life reverberating after
death, ... 'In the Orphic theology transmigration is clearly to be found, ..."
2. An Outline of the Religious Literature of India by John Nicol Farquhar (1920)
"CHAPTER II transmigration AND RELEASE: y to 200 BC i. transmigration and Karma.
§ 32. The immense influence which the doctrine of transmigration and karma ..."
3. Historic Ninepins: A Book of Curiosities, where Old and Young May Read by John Timbs (1869)
"transmigration OF SOULS. In Egypt, as we learn from Herodotus, ... In proof of
the reality of the transmigration, Pythagoras pretended that he distinctly ..."
4. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"(See Giol- transmigration OF THE SOUL. The doctrine of the passage of ...
Even some modern European writers have inclined to the doctrine of transmigration, ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"... and from her physician, Francis Mercurius van Helmont, Keith derived a belief
in the pre-existence and transmigration of souls. ..."
6. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1889)
"... transmigration and Future Life — transmigration of Souls : re-birth in Human
and Animal Bodies, transference to Plants and Objects — Resurrection of ..."
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