Á-ceápian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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á-ceápian

Add: To buy off or out, where a result is obtained by payment :-- Hǽþenne here him fram áceápian, C. D. B. iii. 75, 3. Búton hé him wille fǽhðe of áceápian unless he will buy off the feud from himself, Ll. Th. i. 150, 2. On ðá gerád ðæt hine náge nán man of tó áceápienne on the condition that no man is to buy him out of the land he holds, i. e. get it by paying a higher rent, Cht. Th. 151, 14. [Cf. O. H. Ger. er-kaufen redimere.] Cf. á-bycgan. a-ceapian