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Definition of Coffined
1. coffin [v] - See also: coffin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffined
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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