† aˈgain-buy, v. Obs.
[again- 5.]
To buy back, redeem, ransom.
| 1315 E.E. Psalter (1843) lxxiii. 2 Þou agayn-boghte yherde of þine eritage yhit. 1366 Mandeville Prol. 2 How dere he aȝen boghte us, for the grete Love that he hadde to us. 1382 Wyclif Luke xxiv. 21 We hopiden, for he schulde aȝen bye Israel. ― Isa. lxii. 12 An hoeli puple, aȝeenboȝt of the Lord. c 1449 Pecock Repr. ii. xviij. 261 Sum persoon aȝenbouȝte man bi thee, crosse, in that thou were an instrument for to aȝenbie man. a 1520 Myrroure of Our Ladye 146 He shall agenby Israel from all hys wyckednesses. |