[UN-1 8.] Not enclosed in a coffin.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongekist, Vnchested, or Vncoffined.
a. 1680. Glanvill, Sadducismus, II. (1681), 218. An uncoffined body being laid in a ground exposed to wet [etc.].
1742. Blair, Grave, 152. A Dungeon-Slave, that’s bury’d In the High-way, unshrouded and uncoffin’d.
1855. [J. R. Leifchild], Cornwall, 30. A small ancient dungeon, wherein were found the uncoffined bones of a large man.
1884. Athenæum, 16 Aug., 203/3. This is the last instance we remember of a body being buried uncoffined when laid in consecrated ground with the rites of the Church.
