ˌtransaniˈmation Now rare.
[ad. med.L. transanimātiōn-em (410 in Jerome Epistle 124, 4), f. trans- + anima soul: see -tion.]
Transmigration of the soul; = metempsychosis.
| 1574 Eden tr. Taisner's Bk. Navig. Ded. (Arb.) p. xlvii, Yf it may be graunted..that the spirites of dead men may reuiue in other (after the opinion and transanimation of Pythagoras). 1612 Selden Illustr. Drayton's Polyolb. i. 14 This Pythagorean opinion of transanimation (I have like liberty to naturalize that word). 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. liii. 270 They have many Sects among them, but all agree in the Transanimation of Souls. |
| fig. 1871 Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue vi. 241 As the pronoun passes into the still more subtle conjunction—so also do verbs graduate from particular to general use. Nor does the transanimation stop here. |