v. Obs. rare. [Back-formation from next: see -ATE3.] trans. To transfer the soul of (a person) from one body to another (also with the soul as obj.): = METEMPSYCHOSE v. Hence † Transanimated ppl. a.
1608. Bp. J. King, Serm., 5 Nov., 31. The … strangest μετεμψύχωσις that euer was feigned by Poets, very incarnated, transanimated devils.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, IV. xvii. 376. This Deuill doth transanimate his soule … into a dogge or other beast. Ibid. (1625), Pilgrims, V. viii. § 3. 540. Being metamorphosed and transanimated from men to blockes.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., vii. (1642), 409. According to their beliefe, wicked mens soules be not transanimated at all.
