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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Metempsychosis

· Me·temp·sy·cho·sis · IPA /mɛtəmsʌɪˈkəʊsɪs/
01 n. 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 b…
  1. 1.
    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.