verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To place or enclose in a coffin. transitive

   "The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest."

Synonyms

All synonyms

burycoffincoffinenshrineentombinhume

Example

More examples

"The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest."

Etymology

From en- + coffin.

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