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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bribe  \Bribe\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Bribed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Bribing}.] 
  1.  To  rob  or  steal.  [Obs.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  2.  To  give  or  promise  a  reward  or  consideration  to  (a  judge, 
  juror,  legislator,  voter,  or  other  person  in  a  position  of 
  trust)  with  a  view  to  prevent  the  judgment  or  corrupt  the 
  conduct;  to  induce  or  influence  by  a  bribe;  to  give  a 
  bribe  to 
 
  Neither  is  he  worthy  who  bribes  a  man  to  vote 
  against  his  conscience.  --F.  W. 
  Robertson 
 
  3.  To  gain  by  a  bribe;  of  induce  as  by  a  bribe. 




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