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. Maundev., 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. Ibid., 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.
