encoffin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]encoffin (third-person singular simple present encoffins, present participle encoffining, simple past and past participle encoffined)
- (transitive) To place or enclose in a coffin.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
- The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest.