encoffin

verb

encoffin

verb

Etymology From en- + coffin.

1

To place or enclose in a coffin.

  • 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

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.