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单词 metempsychotic
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metempsychoticadj.

Brit. /ˌmɛtəmsʌɪˈkɒtɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəmˌsaɪˈkɑdɪk/, /məˌtɛmsəˈkɑdɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: metempsychosis n., -otic suffix.
Etymology: < metempsychosis n. (see -otic suffix), after psychotic adj. Compare earlier metempsychosical adj., metempsychosal adj., metempsychic adj., metempsychosic adj.
Relating to or considered in relation to metempsychosis; of the nature of or resulting from metempsychosis.
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1952 Country Life 28 Nov. 1730/3 One feels as if Rembrandt, in a metempsychotic condition, was a witness of the scene.
1984 J. Barnes Flaubert's Parrot ix. 123 He muses..on his own previous incarnations, on his apocryphal or metempsychotic lives in the more interesting times of Louis XIV, Nero and Pericles.
1996 World Lit. Today (Electronic ed.) 1 June At the novelette's end Brakman claims a degree of metempsychotic identification with Don Quixote.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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