(n) (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Metempsychosed p. pr. & vb. n. Metempsychosing ] [ See Metempsychosis. ] To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [ R. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]