Coffining

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coffin \Cof"fin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coffined}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Coffining}.]
     To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
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           Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?


                                                    --Shak.
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           Devotion is not coffined in a cell.      --John Hall
                                                    (1646).
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