metempsychosistn.
/ˌmɛtəmsʌɪˈkəʊsɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəmˌsaɪˈkoʊsəst/, /məˌtɛmsəˈkoʊsəst/ A person who believes in metempsychosis; (in quot. 1834) one who undergoes metempsychosis.
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revolutionist1696
metempsychosist1834
transmigrationist1884
1834 J. White Let. in Mrs. Gordon Christopher North (1879) xiv. 390 Have you ever thought of making Hogg a metempsychosist? what a famous description he would give of his feelings when he was a whale..or a tiger [etc.].
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland I. vii. 198 She was..in a sense a metempsychosist, and believed that we had all known each other in another life—all of us who loved in this.
1968 R. Hargreaves Bloodybacks ix. 239 ‘In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress,’ thundered Allen; which for a metempsychosist and professed free-thinker was as nice a concession to the dramatics demanded of the moment as could..be expected.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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