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Webster 1913 Edition
Suborn
Sub-orn′
,Verb.
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. Shakespeare
Those who by despair
suborn
their death. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Suborn
SUBORN'
,Verb.
T.
1.
In law, to procure a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.2.
To procure privately or by collusion. Or else thou art suborn'd against his honor.
3.
To procure by indirect means. Those who by despair suborn their death.
Definition 2025
suborn
suborn
English
Verb
suborn (third-person singular simple present suborns, present participle suborning, simple past and past participle suborned)
- (transitive) To induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury [16th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir W. O. Russell to this entry?)
- (transitive) To procure privately, or by collusion; to incite secretly; to instigate.
- Shakespeare
- Thou art suborned against his honour.
- Dryden
- Those who by despair suborn their death.
- Shakespeare