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incoffin, v.|ɪnˈkɒfɪn|
Also 6 -en.
[f. in-2 + coffin: cf. F. encoffiner (early 16th c. in Godef.).]
1. trans. To enclose in, or as in, a coffin.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 128 This good father (thinking to have procured some gaine to his Church, by veneration of the dead bodies..) persuaded the King to incoffen them, and to commit them to honorable buriall in Christeschurch at Canterburie. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 343 The Citties did burie their dead..incoffined with a certein wood of Cithia incorruptible. 1670Penn Gt. Case Lib. Consc. Wks. 1782 III. 15 They condemn the Papists for incoffining the scriptures and their worship in an unknown tongue.
2. To hold or enclose like a coffin.
1633Ford Love's Sacr. v. i, That sepulchre that holds Your coffin, shall incoffin me alive. |