Definitions for metempsychosis

metempsychosis me·tem·psy·cho·sis

Spelling: [muh-tem-suh-koh-sis, -temp-, met-uh m-sahy-]
IPA: /məˌtɛm səˈkoʊ sɪs, -ˌtɛmp-, ˌmɛt əm saɪ-/

Metempsychosis is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

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Definitions for metempsychosis

noun

  1. the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.

Origin of metempsychosis

1580-90; Late Latin Greek, equivalent to metempsȳchō-, variant stem of metempsȳchoûsthai to pass from one body into another (see met-, Examples for metempsychosis

His belief in metempsychosis meant that the Catharan was a vegetarian.

Schelling acknowledges it in his Dissertation on metempsychosis.

He seems to have a leaning for metempsychosis and the doctrines of Pythagoras.

The doctrine of metempsychosis was believed in by the Greeks and the Celts.

The idea of lustration, however, is not involved in that of metempsychosis.

He is the patron-god of Tibet and the controller of metempsychosis.

They are, in fact, cases rather of metempsychosis than of metamorphosis.

The doctrine of metempsychosis is not found here, except perhaps in germ.

metempsychosis, 364 (see also under Re-births and Transmigrations).

There is a dash of metempsychosis in it—and it is the strength of the piece.

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