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- adjective
Enclosed in acoffin . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
encoffin .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When it was noised abroad that men sang in the minster and had encoffined him, then rose a great press of folk.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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So, we went to Washington where the president duly solemn, and extravagant with praise, awarded you posthumously with an encoffined trinket symbolizing the ultimate absurdity,
A Medal for a Son 2007
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But Mary was already encoffined in her narrow berth.
Australia Felix 2003
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Except for two garter snakes and a tsetse fly so dead it lay encoffined in artificial amber, unable even to decompose.
Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971
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Arrived at the Bragg dwelling, the detective conducted Harper Elliston at once to the room where the remains of the beautiful, dead girl lay encoffined.
Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton
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At present the trenches are not complete, and their encoffined bodies are stored in the beautiful stone chapel at the entrance.
The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker
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Those with whom he had endured toils and hardships of no common nature, -- with whom he had contended against a treacherous foe, and a more treacherous climate, -- were there encoffined before him.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton
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When it was noised abroad that men sang in the minster and had encoffined him, then rose a great press of folk.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest.
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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He had his soldiers who had died in battle enshrouded and encoffined and sent home to be buried at official expense.
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