To place a dead body into a coffin; to enclose in a coffin.
From 'en-' + 'coffin' (a box for a dead body). 'Coffin' comes from Old French 'cofin,' from Latin 'cophinus' (a basket). The verb form emerged in the 16th-17th centuries.
This somber word appears in funeral records and poetry—'encoffin' makes the simple act of placing a body in a coffin sound like a ceremonial, almost reverent action.
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