单词 | subornate |
释义 | † subornateadj. Obsolete. 1. Of a person: = suborned adj. 1. Also as past participle. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [adjective] > of nature of bribe > bribed subornate1431 bribed?1556 waged1561 feed1579 suggested1647 suborned1676 greased1693 bought1700 nobbled1876 fixeda1889 1431 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1431 §27. m. 5 Certeyns subornatz proves and persones of hir assent and covyne. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 63 Iulius Proculus, subornate by the Romanes, seide Romulus to haue apperede to hym. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xvi. 91 Þe sonnys of Ancus (quhilkis has subornate þir lymmaris to sla þe king). 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts viii. f. xxxii They perceyued Steuen vnworthely oppressed by subornate witnesse. 1560 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1843) III. ii. 225 Sche saw Jonet Watsone subornate and seducit be Williame and then repellet. 1590 H. Barrow & J. Greenwood in Coll. Certain Lett. & Conf. 33 Your subornate witnesses. 1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices iii. 143 Offences and hurtes are of diuers natures, either by riots, affrayes, conspiracies, or murthers of themselues, as principals, or by subornate persons and assistants, as accessaries, acted, & executed. 2. Characterized by deceit; false, underhand. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > dishonesty > dishonest person > [adjective] unjustc1400 bribing1530 unhonest1545 subornate1548 sinistrous1600 sinistruous1601 horse-fair1606 under-honest1609 left-handed1615 leer1631 dishonest1752 cross1819 one-eyed1833 crook1911 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > underhand or sneaky subornate1548 sneaking1582 sinistral1598 sinistruous1601 left-sided1607 left-handed1615 meeching1616 leer1631 backstabbing1803 sneaky1834 underhand1842 sneakish1864 underhanded1864 low-down1905 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxix The cloked gentlenes, and subornate fashion of the duke of Yorke. 1741 tr. F. de S. de la M. Fénélon in tr. L. Riccoboni Hist. & Crit. Acct. Theatres in Europe 259 A Plan of a French Tragedy upon the Subject of OEdipus, in the Manner of Sophocles, without any subornate [Fr. postiche] Intrigue of Love. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). subornatev. Now rare. transitive. To induce or procure (a person) to commit a crime or misdeed; spec. to bribe or unlawfully procure (a person) to make accusations or give evidence against another; to suborn (a person). Also with infinitive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe > to give false evidence procure1433 subornate1537 suborn1538 subordinate1583 1537 Inst. Christen Man f. 6 Subornatynge false wytnesse. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxix The Frenche Kyng..caused a varlet to be subornated, in a cote armure of Fraunce. ?1567 Def. Priestes Mariages sig. A.ij So hath there risen a freshe, as muche admiration againe of a certaine booke, of late putte forthe by one Thomas Marten Doctor of Ciuill, subornated belike, God knoweth by whom, to iustifie the saied sore doynges. ?c1615 Chron. Kings of Scotl. (1830) 15 Being conwictit that he suld subbornat Carmonacus to murther the childrein. 1818 London Guide & Stranger's Safeguard 229 It remained..for us to contemplate the officers immediately employed in detection of offenders, actually subornating others, and assisting them in the commission of crime. 1851 Amer. Whig Rev. Mar. 284/2 The British Government..managed to circumvent, surround, navigate, bewilder, humbug, subornate, and by some means or other..use for its purposes the then Government in Washington. 1905 Washington Rep. 37 409 The defendant Evans had subornated him to commit such crime of perjury. 1933 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 41 38 Smythe was charged..with having subornated officials. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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