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?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) v. sig. C^v Vyle and vngratious parsons, peryllous subuertours of youthe.

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 168 Those great couqwerours and subuertors of whole countries amongs the Grekes and Romains.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 32 The Barrons..(without any legall triall by meere martiall Law) beheaded him, as a subvertor of the Lawes, and an open Traitor to the Kingdome.

1701 C. Davenant Ess. upon War, Peace & Alliances in Ess. 222 King John did indeed take other Measures, but 'tis notorious what a subvertor of Publick Liberty he was.

1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 179/2 The clergy anathematized him, as the enemy of religion in general, as well as the subvertor of their particular institutions.

1822 J. Bentham Lett. to Count Toreno ii. 30 He is..to be put to death..as if he had been (though he has not been) a subvertor of the Constitution in the first degree.

1856 W. S. Landor in Morning Chron. 3 Oct. 5/3 Shall the laws be subverted, and we be told we act against them.., when none are left us, and when..we smite down the subvertor?

1901 W. H. S. Aubrey Rise & Growth Eng. Nation I. xxvii. 441 The followers of the Reformer were..assailed not only as heretics but as subvertors of public order.

1995 Independent 5 Dec. iii. 9/1 The Pop artists and their present day successors deny that lack of beauty [that the Dadaists found in mass-produced objects] and, in effect, subvert the subvertors.