Word Meanings - TRANSMIGRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of passing from one country to another; migration. 2. The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.
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- MIGRATION
The act of migrating. - PASS
passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - DEATHLY
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - PASSOVER
A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at - PASSUS
A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit. - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - COUNTRY SEAT
A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. - PASSIBILITY
The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - PASSIVE FLIGHT
Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power. - METEMPSYCHOSIS
The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne. - PASSENGER MILE
A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question. - DEATHWATCH
A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, - PASSIFLORA
A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species. - PASSEGARDE
A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor. - COUNTRY CLUB
A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports. - PASSERINE
Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - SURPASS
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - REPASS
To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea. - SURPASSING
Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n. - IMPASSIVE
Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.