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metempsychosis

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me⋅tem⋅psy⋅cho⋅sis

  [muh-tem-suh-koh-sis, -temp-, met-uhm-sahy-]
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–noun, plural -ses  [-seez] .
the transmigration of the soul, esp. the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
Origin:
1580–90; < LL < Gk, equiv. to metempsȳchō-, var. s. of metempsȳchoûsthai to pass from one body into another (see met-, em- 2 , psycho- ) + -sis -sis

Related forms:
met⋅em⋅psy⋅chic  [met-uhm-sahy-kik] , me⋅tem⋅psy⋅cho⋅sic, me⋅tem⋅psy⋅cho⋅si⋅cal, adjective
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me·tem·psy·cho·sis   (mə-těm'sĭ-kō'sĭs, mět'əm-sī-)   
n.   pl. me·tem·psy·cho·ses (-sēz)
Reincarnation.

[Late Latin metempsȳchōsis, from Greek metempsūkhōsis, from metempsūkhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empsūkhos, animate (en, in; see en-2 + psūkhē, soul; see bhes- in Indo-European roots).]
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metempsychosis 
1590, from L.L., from Gk. metempsychosis, from meta "change" + en "in" + psyche "soul." Pythagorean word for trans-migration of souls at death.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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