coffined

English

Adjective

coffined

Enclosed in a coffin.
- 1891 August 15, J. Neville Porter, “Mortuary Reform”, in The Sanitary Record, volume 12, page 59:
  There is no mortuaray in Plymouth for coffined bodies awaiting burial.
- 2011, Kevin C. Kearns, Ireland's Arctic Siege of 1947: The Big Freeze of 1947:
  As the ground became frozen more solidly during February, the coffined bodies could no longer be promptly buried.
- 2014, Branka Arsic, American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron:
  In my understanding, the desire for “the smile on the coffined face,” is the habitual yearning of the person to identify him or herself with an image, with a form.
Making use of or containing a coffin.
- 1883, William Lamartine Snyder, Great Opinions by Great Judges, page 305:
  I observe, likewise, that in old tables of burial fees, a distinction of payment is made for coffined funerals and uncoffined funerals.
- 2016, Lindsay Powell, William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland, Care in the Past, page 60:
  Adults were more likely to have had a coffined burial with evidence for 13 coffined burials out of 97 individuals (13%), four of these from within the nave of the church.
- 2021, Stephen Rippon, Neil Holbrook, Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter, page 568:
  Coffined graves contained a burial within a wooden coffin or recptacle, and having such a grave would indicate additional expense and therefore suggest higher status.
(figurative) Dead or locked up and without agency.
- 1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Theo: A Sprightly Love Story, page 37:
  What dead memories and coffined hopes was she bringing out to the dim light of her solitary candle?
- 1896, Klara (Müller) Mundt, Luise Mühlbach, The Youth of the Great Elector, page 336:
  My heart is coffined, and I shall close the lid and bid it an eternal farewell!
- 2019, Mary Costello, The River Capture, page 143:
  Coffined thoughts surround him.

Derived terms

uncoffined

Verb

coffined

simple past and past participle of coffin