Definition of "transmigratory"

I think of him as of some transmigratory votary of Indian legend, who says, "Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God."

1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Chapter 4 - Swedenborg; or, the Mystic”, in Representative Men

To the Brahmin, the lower animal kingdom is a vast masquerade of transmigratory souls.

1866 March 1, B. W. Ball, “A Ramble through the Market”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 30 September 2010

[W]e probably called others bad only so far as we were wrapped in ourselves and lacking in the transmigratory forces of imagination.

1901 , Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 6, in Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin‎, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

[T]he Kuala Gula Bird Sanctuary offers a hideaway to see some of the transmigratory birds that regular flock to the area.

1998 October 14, Geraldine Albela, “Two-phase tourism promotion in Perak”, in New Straits Times, retrieved 30 September 2010, page 16

Changes in the diet of a South Asian transmigratory population may be associated with an increase in incidence of childhood diabetes.

2008, R. Balakrishnan et al., “Trends in Overweight and Obesity Among 5 - 7-year-old White and South Asian Children Born Between 1991 and 1999”, in Journal of Public Health, volume 30, number 2