metazoIc

[Eng. metazo(on); -ic.] Belonging to or characteristic of Prof. Huxley's division Metazoa. [METAZOON.] "What distinguishes the metazoio aggregate is that its component blastomeres remain united into one morphological whole."- Huxley : Anat . Invert . Animals , p. 47. mět-a-zō-on, s. [Pref. meta- , and Gr. zoon =an animal.] Zoology : change; em for en in, and psyche =the soul.] [TRANSMIGRATION.] *mě těmp-sy-chō-size (or psilent), v. t . [Eng. metempsychos( is ); -ize .] To cause the soul to change from one body to another. "Metempsychosized into a frog."-Southey: The Doctor; ch. ccxii.