metempsychosis
noun
me·tem·psy·cho·sis mə-ˌtem(p)-si-ˈkō-səs 
ˌme-təm-ˌsī-
ˌme-təm-ˌsī- : the passing of the soul at death into another body either human or animal
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin, from Greek metempsychōsis, from metempsychousthai to undergo metempsychosis, from meta- + empsychos animate, from en- + psychē soul — more at psych-
First Known Use
1591, in the meaning defined above
- contemners
- contemning
- contemnor
- contemnors
- contemns
- contemper
- contemperament
- contemperation
- contemperature
- contemperatures
- contempered
- contempering
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- contemplable
- contemplant
- contemplants
- contemplate
- contemplated
- contemplates
- contemplating
- contemplatingly
- contemplation
- contemplations
- contemplatists
- contemplative