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transanimation en · NOUN

Etymology

From trans- + animation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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 worse 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
2. (countable, uncountable) Resuscitation of a stillborn infant.

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