coffined
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Making use of or containing a coffin.
verb
simple past and past participle of coffin
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."