Metempsychosis Definition

mə-tĕmsĭ-kōsĭs, mĕtəm-sī-
metempsychoses
noun
metempsychoses
Reincarnation.
American Heritage
In some religious beliefs, the passing of the soul at death into another body, either human or animal; transmigration.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
metempsychosis
Plural:
metempsychoses

Origin of Metempsychosis

  • Late Latin metempsȳchōsis from Greek metempsūkhōsis from metempsūkhousthai to transmigrate meta- meta- empsūkhos animate (en in en–2) (psūkhē soul bhes- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Late Latin metempsychosis, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μετεμψύχωσις (metempsukhōsis), from Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-) + εν (en, “in") + ψυχή (psukhÄ“, “soul").

    From Wiktionary

Metempsychosis Sentence Examples

  • The number of human beings admits neither of increase nor of decrease, and a regular process of metempsychosis goes on continually.

  • He was credited with having originated the doctrine of metempsychosis, while Cicero and Augustine assert that he was the first to teach the immortality of the soul.

  • Moses and Paul are put side by side with Aristotle and Menander, and there is a clear inclination to Platonic doctrines of preexistence and metempsychosis.

  • The doctrine of metempsychosis seems to have been familiar in early Ireland.

  • They are said to have had a firm belief in the immortality of the soul and in metempsychosis, a fact which led several ancient writers to conclude that they had been influenced by the teaching of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras.

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