Palingenesia
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Palingenesia, name equivalent to "new birth," and applied both to regeneration and restoration, of which baptism in the former case is the symbol; in the Stoic philosophy it is preceded by dissolution, as in the rejuvenescence process of MEDEA.
"Palingenesia" is more generally another term for Metempsychosis or Reincarnation.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.