suborn

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.

   “Till thou to ſpit the venome of thy ſpite, / Subornedſt Cupid how he ſoone might ſlay me, / Abandoning his bowe and arrowes quite, / You laid his priuie complot to betray me; […]”

2. fiil To induce (someone, such as a witness) to commit perjury, for example by making a false accusation or giving false evidence.

   “[Y]ou shall finde their tongues chayned to another mans trencher, and as it were, Knights of the Post, suborned to say, sweare and stare the uttermost they can, as those that passe not what they say, nor with what face they say it, so they say no truth.”

3. fiil To achieve (some result; specifically, perjury) in a corrupt manner.

   “[U]pon ſingle Perjuries ſuborned by themſelves they condemned Men unheard, and ſold their Eſtates vvithout ſuffering them to ſpeak for themſelves— […]”

4. fiil To procure or provide (something) secretly and often in a dishonest manner.

   “In a golden bowl / She then suborn'd a potion, in her soul / Deform'd things thinking; for amidst the wine / She mix'd her man-transforming medicine; […]”

5. fiil To make use of (something), especially for corrupt or dishonest reasons.

   “Nor is he onely content to ſuborne Divine Juſtice in his cenſure of vvhat is paſt, but he aſſumes the perſon of Chriſt himſelf to prognoſticate over us vvhat he vviſhes vvould come.”

6. fiil To aid, assist, or support (something).

   “And fell much wood, that all night we may keep / Plenty of fires, even till the light bring forth the lovely morn; / And let their brightness glaze the skies, that night may not suborn / The Greeks' escape, […]”

7. fiil To furnish or provide (something).
8. fiil To substitute (a thing) for something else, especially secretly and often in a dishonest manner.

   “I wiſh unto thee all ſuperabundant increaſe of the ſingular gifts of abſurditie and vaine glory: […] in ſupplanting and ſetting aſide the true children of the Engliſh, and ſuborning inkehorne changlings in their ſteade; […]”