The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transmigrate \Trans"mi*grate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Transmigrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmigrating.] [L. transmigrare, transmigratum; trans across + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]
To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.
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To pass from one body or condition into another.
Their may transmigrate into each other.
--Howell.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To migrate to another country. 2 (context intransitive of the soul English) To pass into another body after death.
WordNet
v. be born anew in another body after death; "Hindus believe that we transmigrate" [syn: reincarnate]
move from one country or region to another and settle there; "Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century"; "This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries" [syn: migrate]
Usage examples of "transmigrate".
They say that it was told in the places of the world where the gods passed later, that some among the Celestial Party transmigrated on that day, taking upon themselves the bodies of white tigers out of Kaniburrha, to join in the hunt through the alleys of Heaven after the thief who had failed and the one who had been called Buddha.
No one will ever know the names he gives to what he catches on the panes, what names he cracks between fingers, the names of his transmigrated enemies, from whom he plucks flyleg after flyleg and lastly the wings, without regret.
Thus, Annon's essence, all that made him unique, had been transmigrated into the body of Riane, a Kundalan girl dying of duur fever.
The spirit transmigrates, and, far from losing its principle of life by the change of its appearance, it is renovated in its new organs with a fresh vigor of a juvenile activity.
Pythagoras forbade members of his sect to eat beans because they contain transmigrating human souls.
They who are committed to doctrines shall continue to move in this cycle of transmigrating belief: degenerating beyond limits they dare not face, and so allow conception to exist of itself from the imaginations 'I believe.