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trans⋅mi⋅gra⋅tion

  [trans-mahy-grey-shuhn, tranz-]
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–noun
1. the act of transmigrating.
2. the passage of a soul after death into another body; metempsychosis.
Compare reincarnation.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME transmigracion < LL trānsmigrātiōn- (s. of trānsmigrātiō) removal. See trans-, migration
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trans·mi·grate   (trāns-mī'grāt', trānz-)   
intr.v.   trans·mi·grat·ed, trans·mi·grat·ing, trans·mi·grates

  1. To migrate.

  2. To pass into another body after death. Used of the soul.


[Latin trānsmigrāre, trānsmigrāt- : trāns-, trans- + migrāre, to migrate; see migrate.]
trans'mi·gra'tion n., trans·mi'gra'tor n., trans·mi'gra·to'ry (-mī'grə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.
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Word Origin & History

transmigration 
1297, from L.L. transmigrationem (nom. transmigratio) "change of country," noun of action from L. transmigrare "to wander, to migrate," from trans- "over" + migrare "to migrate" (see migration). Originally literal, in ref. to the removal of the Jews into the Babylonian captivity; general sense of "passage from one place to another" is attested from 1382; sense of "passage of the soul after death into another body" first recorded 1594.
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Medical Dictionary

transmigration trans·mi·gra·tion (trāns'mī-grā'shən, trānz'-)
n.
Movement from one site to another, which may entail the crossing of some usually limiting membrane or barrier, as in diapedesis.

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