a. [f. TRANSMIGRATE v. + -IVE.] Of, pertaining to, or characterized by transmigration; transmigratory.
1727. D’Urfey, Eng. Stage Italianized, Argt. The Doctor brings the Queen to life by a transmigrative Secret.
1818. G. S. Faber, Horæ Mosaicæ, I. 147. That Adam, and Enoch, and Noah, were alike transmigrative incarnations of him. Ibid. (1833), Recapit. Apostasy, i. 4. Those preëminent mundane patriarchs who were transmigrative reappearances of one and the same great universal father. Ibid. (1844), Eight Dissert. (1845), I. 284. The frequent and well remembered appearance of the Word of Jehovah in a human form soon led to transmigrative Hero-Worship.
Hence Transmigratively adv., by way of transmigration (of the soul).
1818. G. S. Faber, Horæ Mosaicæ, II. 202. He himself was afterwards transmigratively born again in the body of his pontifical Successor Buddas-Addas. Ibid. (1819), Dispensations (1823), II. 74. Souls do not perish after death but fit transmigratively from one body to another.
