transmigrate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

All he does, when he appears to die, is to transmigrate to some other country, whence he returns to them younger, more vigorous, more active than ever. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis

These are not in general trifling; for the Lama is frequently inconsiderate enough towards his followers to transmigrate in a part of the country at once distant and difficult of access.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

The Druids of old Gaul believed that the souls of men transmigrate into those bodies whose habits and characters they most resemble.

From Five Lectures on Reincarnation by Abhedananda, Swami

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