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▪ I. † ˈtransmigrate, ppl. a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. late L. transmigrāt-us (Isidore), pa. pple. of transmigrāre: see next.]
Transferred, transported; cf. next, 1 b. (Const. as pa. pple.)
1430–40Lydg. Bochas viii. xx. (MS. Bodl. 263) 393/2 Iherusalem was whilom transmygrat, Ther trewe Prophetis for thei hadde in despiht.
▪ II. transmigrate, v.|ˈtrɑːnsmɪgreɪt, ˈtræns-, trɑːnsˈmaɪgreɪt, træns-, -nz-|
[f. L. transmigrāt-, ppl. stem of (very rare) transmigrāre, f. trans, trans- + migrāre to migrate. Cf. mod.F. transmigrer (16th c. in Godef.).]
1. intr. To remove or pass from one place to another; esp. of persons, or a tribe: to move from one place of abode to another, to migrate.
1611Coryat Crudities 91 The Longobardes..being exceedingly multiplied in their owne country, transmigrated into a bordering Island. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. x, This complexion..is evidently maintained by generation,..the Natives which transmigrate, omit it not without commixture. 1723Pres. St. Russia II. 66 They are transmigrating from one Place to another. a1797H. Walpole George II (1847) I. ix. 269 The well affected clans might be induced to transmigrate to those settlements. 1898Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 3/1 He found a wider space on the other side, so he transmigrated and slumbered in peace.
b. trans. in causal sense: To transfer, transport. (In quots. only in passive.)
1430–40[see prec.]. 1635Heywood Hierarch. vii. Notes 463 Excellent Spirits..are rather transmigrated from the earth, to reigne with the Powers aboue. 1745Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 11 (1748) II. 216 To try the experiment, Whether, by transferring the blood of one animal into another, the nature of the creature would be transmigrated also.
2. intr. spec. Of the soul: To pass after death into another body.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vii. 51 What manner o thing is your Crocodile?.. It liues by that which nourisheth it, and the Elements once out of it, it Transmigrates. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. cxxxiii. 139 Their spirits transmigrated to a cat. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 43, I think my soul would transmigrat into some tree, when she bids this body farewell. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 174 Methinks I should be loath to Transmigrate into a Child, or lie in a Cradle, with those few Things I have in my Head. 1883Gilmour Mongols xvii. 202 If souls do not transmigrate, where do they come from at birth, whither do they go at death?
b. trans. (causal). To cause to pass: cf. 1 b.
c1559R. Hall Life Bp. Fisher iii. (1655) 32 Luther's Soul was transmigrated into Henry the eighth. 1681Rycaut tr. Gracian's Critick 119 The Souls of evil livers, whom God..had transmigrated into the Bodies of these irrational Creatures. 1876A. B. Grosart in Wordsworth's Pr. Wks. I. Pref. 33 A monkey with a man's soul somehow transmigrated into it.
c. transf. and fig.
1646E. G. in M. Ll[uelyn] Men-Miracles, etc. A v, While the grosse Bodies of the Poets die, Their Souls doe onely shift. And Poesie Transmigrates, not by chance, or lucke. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 186 Desire..To Love transmigrates when it dies. 1834H. Martineau Moral iv. 144 The genius of society has before transmigrated through forms as horrid and disgusting as these. 1850Lynch Theo. Trin. v. 86 Philosophies die or transmigrate.
Hence ˈtransmigrated, ˈtransmigrating ppl. adjs.
1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 55 (1713) II. 98 Whether our Whigs..are not transmigrated Lice, who thrive and increase most in Hospitals and upon poor People? 1693Dryden Persius' Sat. vi. 22 Who, in a drunken Dream beheld his Soul The Fifth within the Transmigrating roul. 1728Pope Dunc. iii. 49 Who knows how long, thy transmigrating soul Might from Bœotian to Bœotian roll! 1754Foote Knights i. Wks. 1799 I. 62 The very abstract of penury! Sir John Cutler, with his transmigrated stockings, was but a type of him. 1898Westm. Gaz. 28 July 2/3 To consider..more mundane matters, such as the number and characters of the transmigrating households. |