palingenesis

• Of a soul Sir Thomas Browne, after others, argues for the restoration of man's body from the grave, from the fancied analogy of the palingenesis or resurrection of vegetables which the magicians of the antique East and the mystic chemists of the Middle Age boasted of effecting. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• By the side of the false, cold, and impossible idea of an ostentatious advent, he conceived the real city of God, the true "palingenesis," the Sermon on the Mount, the apotheosis of the weak, the love of the people, regard for the poor, and the re-establishment of all that is humble, true, and simple. —  The Life of Jesus
• The body dies, and the Lord of life compares it to the death of the seed in the earth; and then comes the palingenesis--the rising in glory. —  Wylder's Hand
• Hence in the embryology of the higher animals, especially, palingenesis is much restricted by cenogenesis; it is to-day, as a rule, only a faded and much altered picture of the original evolution of the animal's ancestors. —  The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
• His acquaintance with the family dated from their social palingenesis, when, after obscure prosperity in a southern suburb, they fluttered to the northern heights, and were observed of the paragraphists. —  The Whirlpool

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