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 (q.v.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Palimpsest * Palinurus