countersecure

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ secure.

Verb

countersecure (third-person singular simple present countersecures, present participle countersecuring, simple past and past participle countersecured)

1. (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.