Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Indemnify

Indemnify , transitive verb

[Latin indemnis unhurt (in- not + damnum hurt, damage) + -fy. Compare Damn, Damnify.]

1.
To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. — Sir W. Temple
2.
To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate. — Beattie