encoffin
English
Etymology
From en- + coffin.
Verb
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.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
Derived terms
- encoffiner
- encoffinment
Translations
place in a coffin
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