METEMPIRICS
Met`em*pir"ics, n.
Defn: The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience.
METEMPSYCHOSE
Me*temp"sy*chose, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Metempsychosed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Metempsychosing.] Etym: [See Metempsychosis.]
Defn: To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.
METEMPSYCHOSIS
Me*temp`sy*cho"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Psychology.]
Defn: The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne.
METEMPTOSIS
Met`emp*to"sis, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Chron.)
Defn: The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.
METENCEPHALON
Met`en*ceph"a*lon, n. Etym: [Met- + encephalon.] (Anat.)
Defn: The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.