transanimation

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ animation.

Noun

transanimation (countable and uncountable, plural transanimations)

  1. The conveyance or passing of a soul from one body to another.[1]
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      The immortality of the soul they did not flatly deny , but falsely believe ; disguised under the opinion of transanimation, conceiving that dying men's souls afterward passed into other bodies, either preferred to better, or condemned to worse
  2. Resuscitation of a stillborn infant.

References

  1. ^ “transanimation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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