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English
Etymology
From counter- + secure.
Verb
countersecure (third-person singular simple present countersecures, present participle countersecuring, simple past and past participle countersecured)
- (transitive) To give additional security to or for.
- February 28 1785, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts
- When a soucar, that is a money dealer, becomes security for any native prince, the course is for the native prince to countersecure the money dealer, by making over to him in mortgage a portion of his territory
References
“countersecure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.