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Webster 1913 Edition
Encoffin
En-cof′fin
,Verb.
T.
To put in a coffin.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Encoffin
ENCOF'FIN
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
encoffin
encoffin
English
Verb
encoffin (third-person singular simple present encoffins, present participle encoffining, simple past and past participle encoffined)
- (transitive) To place or enclose in a coffin.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
- The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’: