Obs. [A literal rendering of Gr. ἀντί-λυτρον in 1 Tim. ii. 6.] A ransom.
1671. Flavel, Fount. of Life, vii. 19. A Ransom or a Counterprice.
1675. Brooks, Gold. Key, Wks. 1867, V. 67. The word … properly signifieth a counter-price, when one doth undergo in the room of another that which he should have undergone in his own person.
a. 1714. M. Henry, Wks. (1835), I. 17. To be a ‘ransom’ for them, a counter-price.
Hence † Counterpriceable a., capable of being a counterprice or ransom.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 26. That bloud … was ἀντίδωρον καὶ ἀντάξιον, countervailable, and counterpriceable, every drop of it, to purchase in ten thousand worlds.
