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metempsychosis
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metempsychosis
(gcide) | Palingenesis \Pal`in*gen"e*sis\, Palingenesy \Pal`in*gen"e*sy\,
n. [Gr. ?; pa`lin again + ? birth: cf. F. paling['e]n['e]sie.
See Genesis.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued
existence in different manner or form.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence: The passing over of the soul of one person or
animal into the body of another person or animal, at the
time of the death of the first; the transmigration of
souls. Called also metempsychosis.
[PJC]
3. (Biol.) That form of development of an individual organism
in which in which ancestral characteristics occurring
during its evolution are conserved by heredity and
reproduced, sometimes transiently, in the course of
individual development; original simple descent; --
distinguished from cenogenesis (kenogenesis or
coenogenesis), in which the mode of individual
development has been modified so that the evolutionary
process had become obscured. Sometimes, in Zoology, the
term is applied to the abrupt metamorphosis of insects,
crustaceans, etc. See also the note under
recapitulation.
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Metempsychosis
(gcide) | Metempsychosis \Me*temp`sy*cho"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ?
beyond, over + ? to animate; ? in + ? soul. See
Psychology.]
The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death
of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living
body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of
souls. --Sir T. Browne.
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metempsychosis
(wn) | metempsychosis
n 1: after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in
another human body [syn: metempsychosis, rebirth] |
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Metempsychosis
(gcide) | Palingenesis \Pal`in*gen"e*sis\, Palingenesy \Pal`in*gen"e*sy\,
n. [Gr. ?; pa`lin again + ? birth: cf. F. paling['e]n['e]sie.
See Genesis.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued
existence in different manner or form.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence: The passing over of the soul of one person or
animal into the body of another person or animal, at the
time of the death of the first; the transmigration of
souls. Called also metempsychosis.
[PJC]
3. (Biol.) That form of development of an individual organism
in which in which ancestral characteristics occurring
during its evolution are conserved by heredity and
reproduced, sometimes transiently, in the course of
individual development; original simple descent; --
distinguished from cenogenesis (kenogenesis or
coenogenesis), in which the mode of individual
development has been modified so that the evolutionary
process had become obscured. Sometimes, in Zoology, the
term is applied to the abrupt metamorphosis of insects,
crustaceans, etc. See also the note under
recapitulation.
[1913 Webster +PJC]Metempsychosis \Me*temp`sy*cho"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ?
beyond, over + ? to animate; ? in + ? soul. See
Psychology.]
The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death
of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living
body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of
souls. --Sir T. Browne.
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