coffined

adj

1. Enclosed in a coffin.

   “There is no mortuaray in Plymouth for coffined bodies awaiting burial.”

   “As the ground became frozen more solidly during February, the coffined bodies could no longer be promptly buried.”

   “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.”

2. Making use of or containing a coffin.

   “I observe, likewise, that in old tables of burial fees, a distinction of payment is made for coffined funerals and uncoffined funerals.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

3. (figuratively)Dead or locked up and without agency.

   “What dead memories and coffined hopes was she bringing out to the dim light of her solitary candle?”

   “My heart is coffined, and I shall close the lid and bid it an eternal farewell!”

   “Coffined thoughts surround him.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of coffin