Dictionary entry

Metempsychosis

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Me‐temp′sy‐cho″sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �; � beyond, over + � to animate; � in + � soul. See Psychology.] The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne.