transmigrate

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Ladder�If the 20th Century does not suit, transmigrate to the 25th.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Maricopas, by the Gila, believe when they die they shall transmigrate into birds, beasts, and reptiles, and shall return to the banks of the Colorado, whence they were driven by the Yumas.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The Jesuits were ordered to dispose the people to transmigrate.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)

In Buddhism, though the Pitakas speak continually of rebirth, metempsychosis is an incorrect expression since there is no soul to transmigrate and there is strictly speaking nothing but karma.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

So we may justly say that this "character"—this moral and intellectual essence of a man—does veritably pass over from one fleshly tabernacle to another, and does really transmigrate from generation to generation.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry