transmigratory
adj1
Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.
- 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:
- 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 2010:
1 more example
- [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:
2
Of, 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 16:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- reverse-transmigratory neutrophil
- Related terms
- transmigrable, transmigrant, transmigrate, transmigration, transmigrator