To pay for loss of or injury to (something); to make compensation for (loss or injury); to make up for, make good. (Also absol.) Obsolete.

To come to terms and pay for an offence or injury; to substitute a money payment in lieu of any other liability or obligation; to pay.

transitive. To compound for, make composition for. rare. (Cf. the n. sense 4b.)

transitive. To make equal return to, to recompense or remunerate (a person, etc.) for anything.