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Webster 1913 Edition
Transmigratory
Trans-mi′gra-to-ry
,Adj.
Passing from one body or state to another.
Webster 1828 Edition
Transmigratory
TRANSMI'GRATORY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
transmigratory
transmigratory
English
Adjective
transmigratory (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.
- 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men , "Chapter 4 - Swedenborg; or, the Mystic":
- I think of him as of some transmigratory votary of Indian legend, who says, "Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God."
- 1866, B. W. Ball, "A Ramble through the Market," The Atlantic, 1 March (retrieved 30 Sep 2010):
- To the Brahmin, the lower animal kingdom is a vast masquerade of transmigratory souls.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, ch. 6:
- [W]e probably called others bad only so far as we were wrapped in ourselves and lacking in the transmigratory forces of imagination.
- 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men , "Chapter 4 - Swedenborg; or, the Mystic":
- Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as between places.
- 1998, Geraldine Albela "Two-phase tourism promotion in Perak," New Straits Times, 14 Oct., p. 16 (retrieved 30 Sep 2010):
- [T]he Kuala Gula Bird Sanctuary offers a hideaway to see some of the transmigratory birds that regular flock to the area.
- 2008, R. Balakrishnan et al., "Trends in Overweight and Obesity Among 5 - 7-year-old White and South Asian Children Born Between 1991 and 1999," Journal of Public Health, vol. 30, no. 2:
- Changes in the diet of a South Asian transmigratory population may be associated with an increase in incidence of childhood diabetes.
- 1998, Geraldine Albela "Two-phase tourism promotion in Perak," New Straits Times, 14 Oct., p. 16 (retrieved 30 Sep 2010):