encoffin

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Etymology

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From en- +‎ coffin.

Verb

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encoffin (third-person singular simple present encoffins, present participle encoffining, simple past and past participle encoffined)

  1. (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.

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