Definition of Coffined

1. Verb. (past of coffin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coffined

1. coffin [v] - See also: coffin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffined

cofferer
cofferers
coffering
coffers
cofferwork
coffice
coffin
coffin bone
coffin dodger
coffin joint
coffin nail
coffin nails
coffin ride
coffin ship
coffin ships
coffined (current term)
coffing
coffining
coffinite
coffinites
coffinless
coffinlike
coffins
coffle
coffled
coffles
coffling
coffret
coffrets
coffs

Literary usage of Coffined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1848)
"... coffined dead. It in divided into several apartments, so lhat the coffins of the men, women, and children can be laid out separately. ..."

2. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"At one period, it is said, on the host authority, there were lying at the burial places 70 bodies coffined without a pel-son to inter them, and but for the ..."

3. Five Years in China: With Some Account of the Great Rebellion, and a by Charles Taylor (1860)
"Coffins—Geomancy—Repositories for coffined-bodies—" Baby Towers "—City Wall—Gates—Coins— ... coffined ..."

4. God in Christ: Three Discourses, Delivered at New Haven, Cambridge, and by Horace Bushnell (1852)
"... or one that is coffined in mere logic and uses, then his language, being dead, will be like all other dead language ; for death is always like itself. ..."

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