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transmigration|trɑːnsmɪˈgreɪʃən, træns-, -maɪ-, -nz-|
[ad. late L. transmigrātiōn-em change of country (in Itala 1 Esdr. vi. 16 the Babylonian Captivity), n. of action from transmigrāre: see prec. Cf. F. transmigration (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
†1. The removal of the Jews into captivity at Babylon; sometimes used for the Captivity. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 196 Þe vifþe [age] was fram dauid to þe transmigracion Of babiloyne. 1382Wyclif 1 Chron. v. 22 Thei dwelliden for hem unto the transmygracioun. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas iv. iii. (MS. Bodl. 263) 216/2 How God wolde make a transmygracioun Of his kyngdam. 1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf B j, The whole people suffered a transmigration irretornable in Assiria. 1609Bible (Douay) 2 Kings xxv. 27 In the seven and thirteth yeare of the Transmigration.
†b. transf. The body of transmigrated people; the Jews of the Captivity. Obs.
1609Bible (Douay) Jer. xxviii. 4 Al the transmigration of Juda, that are entered into Babylon, I wil make to returne. ― Ezek. xi. 24 And the spirite..brought me into Chaldee to the transmigration, in a vision in the spirite of God.
2. Passage or removal from one place to another, esp. from one country to another.
1382Wyclif Jer. xiii. 19 Translatid is al Juda with parfit transmygracioun [1388 passyng ouere]. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. iii. (1520) 21 b/2 He put Nactanabo the kynge in Ethyopia and many Iewes in transmygracyon. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1237/2 Yf my transmigracion into a straunge countrey shoulde be any great griefe vnto me. 1630T. Westcote Devon. 51 Gentlemen's younger sons, who, by means of their travel and transmigration are very well qualified, apt, and fit to manage great and high offices in the republic. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 419 The modern Italians are in a great measure free from..the transmigration of colonies. 1842Westcott in Life (1903) I. ii. 31 You have heard of my transmigration from Birmingham to Ludlow. 1858H. W. Beecher Life Th. (1859) 171 Birds in the hour of transmigration feel the impulse of southern lands. 1875Haddan in Dict. Chr. Antiq. I. 226/1 [According to] the author of the tract De Translationibus..the thing prohibited is ‘transmigration’ (which arises from the bishop himself, from selfish motives), not ‘translation’ (wherein the will of God and the good of the Church is the ruling cause). 1903Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 1 May 2 The great Teutonic, Hungarian, Tartar, and Mongolian transmigrations.
b. fig. Of non-material things.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 500 Ignoble Gallants..swallow vp the honour of their..Predecessours, with..Gluttony, Lust, and vaine Apparell, making a Transmigration of perpetuity to their present Belly, and Backe. a1711Ken Sion Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 397 Love instantly rejoin'd Love from the Lover's Mind, To God still am'rous Transmigrations makes. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. xxxiv, That enviable power of mental transmigration, which placed him..quite beyond the influence of her power.
†3. Transition from one state or condition to another; esp. passage from this life, by death; also absol. death. Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 323 His ioyful estate of heauen, after his transmigration out of the labyrinth of this life. a1631Donne Serm. lxi. (1640) 613 Enough for thy pilgrimage, enough for thy transmigration, enough for thy eternall habitation. 1675T. Plume Life Bp. Hacket (1865) 139 His placid departure, with as gentle a transmigration to happiness as..was ever heard of.
¶b. Loosely used for transformation or transmutation (cf. transmogrification). Obs.
1618N. Field Amends for Ladies ii. i. in Hazl. Dodsley XI. 113 The teeth she had Have made a transmigration into hair: She hath a bigger beard than I. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §39 Those strange and mysticall transmigrations that I have observed in Silkewormes.
4. spec. Passage of the soul at death into another body; metempsychosis. Also fig.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 527 This Transmigration of Soules they called Regeneration, because it was vnto them as it were a generation and newe birth. a1625Fletcher Woman's Prize iv. v, I..know her To be a woman⁓wolf by transmigration. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 38 The Bannyans..For they so much detest the slaughter of any creature, though a Louse..Imagining as did Pythagoras, the transmigration of mens soules into other creatures. 1709–10Steele Tatler No. 134 ⁋1 A Discourse on the Transmigration of Men into other Animals. 1892Westcott Gospel of Life 153 The Myths of Plato will shew us how great an attraction this doctrine of transmigration exerts upon the imagination of men.
5. Path. The migration or passage of cells through a membrane or the wall of a vessel; the oozing of white blood corpuscles through the unruptured walls of the blood-vessels; diapedesis.
1890Billings Med. Dict., Transmigration, a moving across a limiting membrane or out of a vessel or cavity. 1899Syd. Soc. Lex., Transmigration, the passage of cells or particles through a membranous septum.
Hence transmiˈgrationism, the theory or doctrine of transmigration of souls; transmiˈgrationist, one who holds this doctrine; also attrib. or as adj.
1888F. W. H. Myers in Fortn. Rev. Jan. 103 Is Traducianism conceivable?.. Are we not driven back on some form of *Transmigrationism?
1884Chr. Commonwealth 20 Mar. 545/1 Accessible to the influence of dead and buried Asiatic poetasters and *transmigrationists. 1903F. W. Myers Hum. Personality II. 267 Both the old traducianist and the old transmigrationist view would thus possess a share of truth. |