transanimation
nounEtymology From trans- + animation.
1
The conveyance or passing of a soul from one body to another.
- 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 worse1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
2
Resuscitation of a stillborn infant.