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suborn


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Suborn  \Sub*orn"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Suborned};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Suborning}.]  [F.  suborner,  L.  subornare  sub  under 
  secretly  +  ornare  to  furnish,  provide,  equip,  adorn.  See 
  {Ornament}.] 
  1.  (Law)  To  procure  or  cause  to  take  a  false  oath  amounting 
  to  perjury,  such  oath  being  actually  taken  --Sir  W.  O. 
  Russell. 
 
  2.  To  procure  privately,  or  by  collusion;  to  procure  by 
  indirect  means  to  incite  secretly;  to  instigate. 
 
  Thou  art  suborned  against  his  honor.  --Shak. 
 
  Those  who  by  despair  suborn  their  death.  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  suborn 
  v  :  incite  to  commit  a  crime 




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