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▪ I. bribing, vbl. n.|ˈbraɪbɪŋ|
[f. bribe v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb bribe; †a. thieving; †b. extortion; c. corruption by bribes. Also attrib.
1549Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 130 If there shall be brybynge, they [Judges] knowe the peryl of it. 1573Tusser Husb. x. (1878) 21 Bribing and shifting haue seldom good end. 1618Bolton Florus iii. i. 161 The bribing of Scaurus came to light. 1634Sanderson Serm. II. 288 Then what crouching, and fawning, and bribing, and dawbing, to have the matter taken up in a private chamber? 1839Marryat Phant. Ship xxxi, We may get away by bribing.
▪ II. ˈbribing, ppl. a.
[f. bribe v. + -ing2.]
†1. Dishonest, thievish. Obs.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 323 a, Verres..left nothyng behynde hym, as beeyng a taker and a brybyng feloe. 1567Harman Caveat (1869) 74 These beastlye brybinge breeches.
†2. That exacts or accepts bribes; venal. Obs.
1592Greene Art Conny catch. Pref. 4 Some bribing officer, who threatneth to carrie him to prison, takes awaie all the monie, and lets him slip. 1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (1870) 19 Shewing howe grievous to the comon welth a bribing Judge is. 1649Cromwell Lett. 31 Dec., They are accounted the bribingst people that are.
3. That gives bribes; that corrupts or seduces with or like a bribe.
c1670Expost. Men Buckhm. 1/2 Did he not once make you a bribeing Present of Timber? 1818Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 231 Bribing and corrupt boroughmongers. |