transmigrate
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An idea may have many garments, may transmigrate into many different material forms.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Alexander Maclaren
The Maricopas, by the Gila, believe when they die they shall transmigrate into birds, beasts, and reptiles, and shall return to the banks of the Colorado, whence they were driven by the Yumas.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
They think the soul will transmigrate many times before being finally united to Brahma.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
No doubt many of these wretched sufferers would have consented to transmigrate instantly into the bodies of any of the animals who were ending so snugly their earthly careers.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
"I am sure all this is because you think you will transmigrate into a black spider!" she replied, her nostrils trembling with anger.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
Whether the soul of Georges transmigrated is a matter for metaphysicians.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2015
It was understandable; though he had been a "vers libre bard" before his death, his soul had transmigrated into the body of an ambitious cockroach.
From Time Magazine Archive
SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music.
From Time Magazine Archive
Great Omar, here to-night we drain a bowl Unto thy long-since transmigrated soul, Ours all unworthy in thy place to sit, Ours still to read in life's enchanted scroll.
From Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems by Richard Le Gallienne
In France, as I have said, Richardson found congenial hearers, and Clarissa's soul doubtless transmigrated into the heroine of the 'Nouvelle Héloïse.'
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
That outlives us.That starts off wholly physical and thenis slowly transmigrating as it must,a voice, a face, a bike left on the lawn,because love's also made of metaphorsof other things.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2011
Novels are getting restless, shrugging off their expensive papery husks and transmigrating digitally into other forms.
From Time Magazine Archive
This quality is perhaps best illustrated by Haldane's conversion to vegetarianism under the impact of the Hindu doctrine of transmigrating souls.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the soul of a usurer, inhabiting now the body of a war-captain, now transmigrating into that of a huckster.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
If the analogy between the pradhâna and the bodily organs were a complete one, it would follow that the Lord is affected by pleasure and pain no less than the transmigrating souls are.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
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