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transmigrate

[trans-mahy-greyt, tranz-] / trænsˈmaɪ greɪt, trænz- /


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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Oh, if our souls could transmigrate I'd be a seamew above all birds that fly!

From Beyond the City by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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

From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.

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)

Whether the soul of Georges transmigrated is a matter for metaphysicians.

From BBC Jan. 31, 2015

SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was understandable; though he had been a "vers libre bard" before his death, his soul had transmigrated into the body of an ambitious cockroach.

From Time Magazine Archive

I feel as if the soul of Northcote had transmigrated into me, and, if only I had a flaxen beard, I am sure I should make one of his Midland speeches to admiration….

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Great Omar, here to-night we drain a bowl Unto thy long-since transmigrated soul,   Ours all unworthy in thy place to sit, Ours still to read in life's enchanted scroll.

From Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems by Le Gallienne, Richard

That outlives us.That starts off wholly physical and thenis slowly transmigrating as it must,a voice, a face, a bike left on the lawn,because love's also made of metaphorsof other things.

From The Guardian Jan. 24, 2011

Novels are getting restless, shrugging off their expensive papery husks and transmigrating digitally into other forms.

From Time Magazine Archive

This quality is perhaps best illustrated by Haldane's conversion to vegetarianism under the impact of the Hindu doctrine of transmigrating souls.

From Time Magazine Archive

And for the following reason also the Self consisting of bliss is the highest Self only, not the other, i.e. the one which is other than the Lord, i.e. the transmigrating individual soul.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George

Smriti also declares that the transmigrating soul when reaching the state of Release 'imitates,' i.e. attains supreme equality of attributes with the highest Brahman.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George




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