单词 | transmigrant |
释义 | transmigrantadj.n. A. adj. That transmigrates. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > transmigration > [adjective] > undergoing metempsychosical1622 metempsychoseda1635 transmigrant1654 transmigrated1682 transmigrating1693 metempsychosal1848 metempsychic1885 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. iii. 82 Such an Agonie and maw-Convulsions, that he thought his soule had been transmigrant and Errant from his Body. 1888 Athenæum 24 Nov. 695/2 They proceed to tell a secular story of transmigrant souls. B. n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > emigrant transmigrant1622 transmigrator1743 emigrant1754 top-cast1827 emigrator1837 exodist1848 out-settler1852 little brother1925 out-migrant1936 emigré1955 1622 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Wks. (1879) I. 529/1 There are other bands of society, and implicit confederations. That of colonies, or transmigrants, towards their mother nation. 2. a. In modern use: A person passing through a country or place on his way from the country from which he is an emigrant to that in which he will be an immigrant. Used spec. in reference to the Aliens Act of 1905: see quot. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > passing through > one who transmigrant1894 1894 Willis in Rep. Bd. of Trade recent Immigr. fr. E. Europe 10 The immigrants of [Russian and Polish] nationality formed..in 1892, 64 per cent. of all aliens (not being seamen and not known to be transmigrants) shown..to have come here from Hamburg. 1906 Aliens Act 1905: Regulations 21 in Parl. Papers Cd. 2879 XCVI. 729 Transmigrants. That is, alien passengers (other than first-class passengers) who have in their possession prepaid through tickets, and in respect of whom security has been given that they will proceed to places outside the United Kingdom. 1910 Daily News 26 Feb. 4/2 Practically no aliens now arrive in this country for the purpose of settling here; they are nearly all transmigrants proceeding via England from the Continent to America. b. Also said of migratory birds. 3. A soul which transmigrates. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > transmigration > [noun] > soul in process of transmigrator1837 transmigrant1882 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1622 |
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