mĕtempsȳchōsis, is, f., = μετεμψύχωσις,
the transit of the soul, its transmigration from one body to another , a doctrine of the Pythagoreans, Porphyr. ad Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 52.
·noun The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabi...
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