Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that transmigrates.
- noun One in transit through a country on the way to the country in which one intends to settle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Passing into another country or state for residence, or into another form or body; migrating.
- noun One who migrates or leaves his own country and passes into another for settlement; a colonist.
- noun One who passes into another state or body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
transmigrates - noun someone in
transit through acountry on the way to a finaldestination
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is as if he were writing the history of man, from the last day of creation forward, starting with a few transmigrant souls still under the control of their oversea existence.
The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901
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_Dejection_, that dirge of infinite pathos over the grave of creative imagination, might, but for the fatal decree which had by that time gone forth against Coleridge's health and happiness, have been but the cradle-cry of a new-born poetic power, in which imagination, not annihilated but transmigrant, would have splendidly proved its vitality through other forms of song.
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'Hence it was that some ancients imagined, that as men in this life incline more to the angel or the brute, so after their death they should transmigrant into the one or the other; and it would be no unpleasant notion to consider the several species of brutes, into which we may imagine that tyrants, misers, the proud, malicious, and ill-natured, might be changed.
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant John Hamilton Moore 1772
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“entelechia,” quintessence, flame, ether — that it has been believed to be universal, uncreated, transmigrant?
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