Definition of "transmigration" [trans•mi•gra•tion]

• Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration. (noun)
• The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis. (noun)

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• "Philosophy majors might know that transmigration is a synonym for reincarnation."
• "By Don Marquis, in "archy and mehitabel," 1927 listen to me i have been mobbed almost theres an old simp cockroach here who thinks he has been to hell and all the young cockroaches make a hero out of him and admire him he sits and runs his front feet through his long white beard and tells the story one day he says he crawled into a yawning cavern and suddenly came on a vast abyss full of whirling smoke there was a light at the bottom billows and billows of yellow smoke swirled up at him and through the horrid gloom he saw things with wings flying and dropping and dying they veered and fluttered like damned spirits through that sulphurous mist listen i says to him old man youve never been to hell at all there isn t any hell transmigration is the game i used to be a human vers libre poet and i died and went into a cockroach s body if there was a hell id know it wouldn t i you re irreligious says the old simp combing his whiskers excitedly ancient one i says to him while all those other cockroaches gathered into a ring around us what you beheld was not hell all that was natural some one was fumigating"
• "This doctrine of re-birth is known as the transmigration of souls (metempsychosis)."