encoffin

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ coffin.

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• encoffiner
• encoffinment