Obs. [ad. L. commigrātiōn-em migration, f. commigrā-re to remove with all one’s effects, migrate, f. com- with + migrāre to migrate.] Migration: properly, on a large scale.
1627. Hakewill, Apol., I. i. 34. Wee read of diverse commigrations or removalls of Nations.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. vii. 201. Nothing impedes their mutual commigrations.
1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, I. (1723), 184. The Inhabitants … lost all Memory of their Commigration.
1755. Johnson, Commigration, a removal of a large body of people from one country to another.
2. Transmigration (of souls).
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, V. vi. 406. The Commigration of soules into the bodies of Beasts.
