Reembodied

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The process through which an entity regains a new physical form following a previous existence involves transforming or relocating an essence into another body and denotes a form of rebirth in a new corporeal state
2. To have restored or transferred a soul or consciousness into a new body after a prior existence
3. Having returned to physical existence by assuming a different bodily form than previously occupied

Etymology: Like "rebuild" or "reread," this term is a prefix plus an existing word. The prefix "re-" means "again," and the base is "embodied," the past participle of "embody." "Embody" is itself built from "em-" (a form of "en-," meaning "into") and "body," so it originally meant to put something into a bodily form. English speakers used it for giving a concrete shape to abstract things, such as laws, ideas, or spirits, long before it came to mean a physical person or creature. "Reembodied" therefore describes something that has been given a body again, a sense that fits the definition's idea of returning in a new physical form. The compound is much less common than its base, and it is more often found in religious, philosophical, or science-fiction writing about souls or minds in new bodies.