coffined

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adjective

Enclosed in a coffin.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. Enclosed in a coffin.

    There is no mortuaray in Plymouth for coffined bodies awaiting burial.

    1891 August 15, J. Neville Porter, “Mortuary Reform”, in The Sanitary Record, volume 12, page 59
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    As the ground became frozen more solidly during February, the coffined bodies could no longer be promptly buried.

    2011, Kevin C. Kearns, Ireland's Arctic Siege of 1947: The Big Freeze of 1947

    In my understanding, the desire for “the smile on the coffined face,” is the habitual yearning of the person to identify him or herself with an image, with a form.

    2014, Branka Arsic, American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron
  2. Making use of or containing a coffin.

    I observe, likewise, that in old tables of burial fees, a distinction of payment is made for coffined funerals and uncoffined funerals.

    1883, William Lamartine Snyder, Great Opinions by Great Judges, page 305
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    Adults were more likely to have had a coffined burial with evidence for 13 coffined burials out of 97 individuals (13%), four of these from within the nave of the church.

    2016, Lindsay Powell, William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland, Care in the Past, page 60

    Coffined graves contained a burial within a wooden coffin or recptacle, and having such a grave would indicate additional expense and therefore suggest higher status.

    2021, Stephen Rippon, Neil Holbrook, Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter, page 568
  3. figurativelyDead or locked up and without agency.

    Coffined thoughts surround him.

    2019, Mary Costello, The River Capture, page 143
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    What dead memories and coffined hopes was she bringing out to the dim light of her solitary candle?

    1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Theo: A Sprightly Love Story, page 37

    My heart is coffined, and I shall close the lid and bid it an eternal farewell!

    1896, Klara (Müller) Mundt, Luise Mühlbach, The Youth of the Great Elector, page 336
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of coffin
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Chicago

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