metempsychosis noun. [,mɛtɛmpsʌɪ'kǝʊsɪs] Pl. -choses [-'kǝʊsi:z]. L16.
[Late Latin, from Greek metempsukhōsis, formed as META- + en in + psukhē soul: see -OSIS.]
Transmigration of the soul; esp. the passage of the soul of a person or animal at or after death into a new body of the same or a different species (a tenet of the Pythagoreans and certain Eastern religions).

■ metempsychose noun & verb (a) noun [French métempsycose] = METEMPSYCHOSIS; (b) verb trans. transfer (a soul) from one body to another: L16.

■ metempsychosic adjective E20.

■ metempsychosical adjective: only in E17.

■ metempsychosist noun a person who believes in metempsychosis M19.

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