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▪ I. reinˈcarnate, a. [re- 5 a.] Incarnate again.
1882Myers Renewal of Youth etc., 213 Re-incarnate, unremembering, tread In the old same footsteps of himself long dead. ▪ II. reinˈcarnate, v. [re- 5 a.] trans. and intr. To incarnate anew.
1858Sears Athan. iii. iii. 272 The Pharisee believed that..only a part of them [the dead] would be re-incarnated, enter again into their former bodies. 1880Contemp. Rev. Feb. 199 A body which could appear and disappear..by being, as it were, re-incarnated at one time, and dis-incarnated at another. 1892Pall Mall G. 13 Sept. 3/1 A man dies; his ‘Ego’ passes to the ‘spiritual planes’ of nature: after a long interval..it re-incarnates. Hence reinˈcarnated, reinˈcarnating ppl. adjs.
1883J. Gilmour Mongols xvii. 199 Buddhism..with..its crowds of constantly reincarnating living Buddhas. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa x. 230 The idea I found regarding reincarnated diseases, existent among the Okÿon tribes. |