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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1501-1552, 1632
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Transmigratio(u)n, -mygratioun, -migracyon, n. [ME and e.m.E. transmigracion (1297), transmygracioun (Wyclif), transmigration (1576), L. transmigrātiōn-.] Removal from one country to another, specif. the removal of the Jews to Babylon, the Babylonian Captivity. Also fig. — 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1556.
I saw the transmigratioun in Babylon c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. i 11.
The transmygratioun of Babilone a1538 Abell 11*a.
Transmigracyon of the 10 tribis c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3819.
Thare kyng … Brocht thame … to Babilone, Quhare thay remanit presoneris The space of thre score and ten ȝeris. And that first desolatioun Wes callit the transmigratioun —fig. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 500.
Ignoble gallants … swallow up the honour of their … predecessours with … gluttony, lust and vaine apparell, making a transmigration of perpetuity to their present belly and backe
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