Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Metempsychosis

Metempsychosis , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed}; {not transcribed} beyond, over + {not transcribed} to animate; {not transcribed} in + {not transcribed} 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