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transmigrate

[trans-mahy-greyt, tranz-] / trænsˈmaɪ greɪt, trænz- /


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The Vedânta is on the one hand a scheme of salvation for liberating souls which transmigrate unceasingly in a world ruled by a personal God.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

These are not in general trifling; for the Lama is frequently inconsiderate enough towards his followers to transmigrate in a part of the country at once distant and difficult of access.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

When the saint of Djachi-Loumbo, when the Bandchan-Remboutchi dies, he will not transmigrate as heretofore, in Further Thibet. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc

"Because, in order for the soul to transmigrate, the previous body's got to be dead, and I'm afraid our little pal here was alive all the time."

From Once a Greech by Evelyn E. Smith

The Jesuits were ordered to dispose the people to transmigrate.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas

Whether the soul of Georges transmigrated is a matter for metaphysicians.

From BBC Jan. 31, 2015

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

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

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

For Plato says that there are souls which, in Recollections during transmigration. periods of many thousand years, have successively transmigrated through bodies of various kinds.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

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

Therefore the Self which consists of bliss is nothing but the transmigrating Soul.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut

Who knows how long thy transmigrating soul Might from Boeotian to Boeotian roll?

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan




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