The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coffin \Cof"fin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coffined; p. pr. & vb. n. Coffining.] To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?
--Shak.
Devotion is not coffined in a cell.
--John Hall
(1646).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: coffin)
Usage examples of "coffined".
Huon de Domville was left to the care of Brother Edmund and his helpers, and his coffin bespoken from Martin Bellecote, the master carpenter in the town, for whether he was to find his burial here or elsewhere, he must be decently coffined for his journey to the grave, and with suitable grandeur.
Convey the body (now coffined in this house), by means that I shall show, to the Church of St.
The only remaining mercy was shown to him by certain Knights Templar who were in Mildenhall at the time, and took his coffined body back with them to London, where for want of any Christian relenting they were forced to let him lie in a pit outside the churchyard of the Temple, in unhallowed ground, and even so a step beyond what was permitted by canon law, for by the strict letter he should not have been laid in the earth at all.
The young man is coffined decently, his own priest takes him hence today to Upton, for burial among his people.
I tell you now,” he said gently, hearing the sharp and painful intake of her breath, “because at home you will find him being coffined and readied for burial.
But first he looked in at the small bare room where Bertred’s coffined body lay on trestles, and the master-carpenter and his son were just fitting the lid, and said a prayer for a young man lost.