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English Dictionary: suborning by the DICT Development Group
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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.
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