transmigrate

"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

So we may justly say that this "character"—this moral and intellectual essence of a man—does veritably pass over from one fleshy tabernacle to another, ana does really transmigrate from generation to generation.

From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by T. H. Huxley

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

In Buddhism, though the Pitakas speak continually of rebirth, metempsychosis is an incorrect expression since there is no soul to transmigrate and there is strictly speaking nothing but karma.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot

"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

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

It is for this reason that we are commanded to have our slaughtering-knife without defect, for who knows if there be not a transmigrated soul in the animal?

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

Thus while the soul of Babylon and the Nile Valley have transmigrated, ours still remains vital and with capacity of absorbing what time has brought, and making it one with itself.

From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose

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

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

She says that the "revolution of souls" was in reality only the revolving of the atoms of the bodies which are continually transmigrating from one body to another throughout the various kingdoms of nature.

From Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution by Fred Rothwell