v. Now rare. Also 7 encoffen. [f. EN-1 + COFFIN.] trans. To put into a coffin; hence, to shut up, hide away. Also fig.
Hence Encoffining vbl. sb.
1598. E. Gilpin, Skial. (1878), 54. I had rather be encoffin’d in this chest.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 868. His bones were … solemnly encoffined in the Chancell.
1670. Penn, Case Liberty Consc., 15. They condemn the Papists for encoffening the Scriptures … in an unknown tongue.
1856. Chamb. Jrnl., V. 214. The encoffining … of the dead was regarded as of greater consequence.
