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Metempsychose

Metempsychose \Me*temp"sy*chose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Metempsychosed; p. pr. & vb. n. Metempsychosing.] [See Metempsychosis.] To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.]
--Peacham.

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metempsychose

vb. (context transitive English) To translate or transfer (e.g. the soul) from one body to another.

Usage examples of "metempsychose".

My first pages relate the effect of a certain literary experience upon myself,--a series of partial metempsychoses of which I have been the subject.