transmigrate
/ˌtranzmʌɪˈɡreɪt
/ /ˌtrɑːnzmʌɪˈɡreɪt/ /ˌtransmʌɪˈɡreɪt/ /ˌtrɑːnsmʌɪˈɡreɪt/verb [no object]
1(Of the soul) pass into a different body after death: his spirit would transmigrate into another being...
- Buddhism held an alternative but no less unbelievable theology - that there was no such thing as a God, and that on death your soul transmigrates into the body of some new born creature.
- A distinctive belief is that souls transmigrate (are reincarnated) from generation to generation.
- Alternatively, Plato thought that all ideas were held from birth in the mind, where they had transmigrated from earlier souls.
2 rare Migrate: they might transmigrate to those settlements...
- In other regions where the Javanese have been transmigrated, there have been similar outbreaks of violence, though not as serious.
- Potential for interethnic conflict has increased over the past decades as more people from Java are transmigrated to outer islands, and more people from the outer islands move to Java.
- A prerequisite for invasiveness is the ability of pneumococci to transmigrate and to disseminate through the epithelial and endothelial layers and to breach the blood-brain barrier.
Derivatives
transmigration
- Karma regulates the reincarnation and transmigration of the soul, Sikhism links Karma with the doctrine of Grace.
- The school of materialism called the Charvaka (also called Lokayat) did not believe in the cycle of rebirth and transmigration.
- Naturally, he regarded the pagan Platonists as mistaken in accepting polytheism, everlasting world-cycles, and the transmigration of souls.
transmigrator
- As he started in rearranging the foliage on the wreath he signaled the waiting transmigrator operator to telegraph the bottle back to The Ship.
- In Japan, Jizo is the much loved form of the Bodhisattva of the underworld; he is the emanation of compassion which guides and protects transmigrators into and out of life.
- Buddhas do not wash away ill deeds with water, nor remove transmigrators sufferings with their hands, nor transfer their realizations to others.
transmigratory
- It is the story of four people who live and die in succession, bearing the same birthmark and experiencing transmigratory dreams revealed to the lawyer-scholar Honda.
- In accordance with them they become subject to joys and sorrows, which, in essence constitute what is termed ‘the river of transmigratory existence.’
- Its collage and essayistic structure enabled me to explore intricate, allusive ideas of postcolonial dislocation, cultural mistranslation and transmigratory spaces.
Origin
Late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense 'transferred'): from Latin transmigrat- 'removed from one place to another', from the verb transmigrare (see trans-, migrate).
Rhymes
- hospital ball
- hospital corners
- hospitaler
- Hospitalet
- Hospitalet de Llobregat
- hospital fever
- hospitalisation
- hospitalise
- hospitalism
- hospitalist
- hospitality
- hospitalization
- hospitalize
- hospitaller
- hospital nurse
- hospital pass
- hospital ship
- hospital trust
- hospodar
- hossling
- host
- hosta
- hostage
- hostage taker
- hostage-taking