See Also: metempsychosis(medicine)
metempsychosis(dictionary)

metempsychosis (iou)



metempsychosis noun. . L16.
[Late Latin, from Greek metempsukhosis, formed as META- + en in + psukhe 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 metempsycose] = 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.