1. trans. To equal or counterbalance in value; = COUNTERVAIL 1.
1581. W. Stafford, Exam. Compl., i. (1876), 17. We haue nothing to sell … to counterualue those things that we must buy agayne.
1605. T. Hutton, Reasons for Refusal, 133. Whose vse and doctrine countervalue not their doubts & vncertaine opinions.
1656. H. Phillips, Purch. Patt., B vj b. The Rent remaining will counter-value the Ground-Rent.
2. intr. Of an accused person: To give a counter-estimate. Cf. COUNTER-PENALTY.
1832. Sir G. C. Lewis, in Philol. Museum, I. 132. The defendant was then allowed to make a lower assessment of the fine or other penalty, to counter-value, as it was called (ἀντιτιμᾶσθαι or ὑποτιμᾶσθαι.)
