Meanings
- not comparableOf, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.
To the Brahmin, the lower animal kingdom is a vast masquerade of transmigratory souls.
1866 March 1, B. W. Ball, “A Ramble through the Market”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 30 Sep 20102 more examples
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."
1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Chapter 4 - Swedenborg; or, the Mystic”, in Representative Men[W]e probably called others bad only so far as we were wrapped in ourselves and lacking in the transmigratory forces of imagination.
1901 [1887], Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 6, in Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons - not comparableOf, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as between places.
[T]he Kuala Gula Bird Sanctuary offers a hideaway to see some of the transmigratory birds that regular flock to the area.
1998 October 14, Geraldine Albela, “Two-phase tourism promotion in Perak”, in New Straits Times, retrieved 30 Sep 2010, page 161 more example
Changes in the diet of a South Asian transmigratory population may be associated with an increase in incidence of childhood diabetes.
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”, in Journal of Public Health, volume 30, number 2
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