— metempsychic /met'euhm suy"kik/ , metempsychosic, metempsychosical , adj.
/meuh tem'seuh koh"sis, -temp'-, met'euhm suy-/ , n. , pl. metempsychoses /-seez/ .
the transmigration of the soul, esp. the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
[ 1580-90; metempsycho-, var. s. of metempsychoûsthai to pass from one body into another (see MET-, EM- 2 , PSYCHO-) + -sis -SIS ]