| 释义 |
enˈcoffin, 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 enˈcoffining vbl. n.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 54, I had rather be encoffin'd in this chest. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 868 His bones were..solemnly encoffined in the Chancell. 1670Penn Case Liberty Consc. 15 They condemn the Papists for encoffening the Scriptures..in an unknown tongue. 1856Chamb. Jrnl. V. 214 The encoffining..of the dead was regarded as of greater consequence. |