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trans⋅mi⋅gra⋅tion

[trans-mahy-grey-shuhn, tranz-]
–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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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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