Definition of "uncoffined" [uncoffined]

• Not placed in a coffin. (adjective)

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• "Those who died first were coffined by their dying friends; a row of coffins was found, in the spring, each with a man in it; two men uncoffined, side by side, were dead upon the floor."
• "They were in a narrow cavern of brown, wood-scented darkness, with a dim focus of light before them, that shone on an empty coffin and an uncoffined body, and just showed them the rough outlines of the two prayer-desks drawn up side by side at a little distance from the catafalque."
• "I tried two more funeral establishments and was told substantially the same thing: cremation of an uncoffined body is prohibited under California law."