Meanings
adjectiveencoffined (not comparable)
- not comparableEnclosed in a coffin.
No corpse shall be retained in any premises, including a funeral parlour, for a period longer than 48 hours after death, unless the corpse is encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin or is embalmed.
2002, Singapore Statutes, section 4, Funeral parlours, cemeteries and crematoria http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_getdata.pl?actno=2002-REVED-95&segid=933565630-001403
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of encoffin
Origin
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