transcorporate
English
Etymology
Adjective
transcorporate (not comparable)
- across or involving different corporations
Verb
transcorporate (third-person singular simple present transcorporates, present participle transcorporating, simple past and past participle transcorporated)
- (obsolete) To transmigrate (transport the soul into another body).
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:
- The Stoicks who thought the souls of wise men had their habitation about the moon, might make slight account of subterraneous deposition; whereas the Pythagoreans and transcorporating Philosophers, who were to be often buried, held great care of their enterrment.
References
- “transcorporate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.