单词 | suborner |
释义 | subornern. A person who suborns a person or thing. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe > one who bribes meeder1556 bribe-monger1563 suborner1577 briber1679 bribe broker1787 corrupter1821 boodler1885 tipster1889 nobbler1982 1577 R. Smythe tr. M. Bandello Straunge, Lamentable, & Tragicall Hystories sig. H.iiij This venerable slaue,..who moued by the couetousnesse of that which the Suborner doth promyse him. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 54 Ambition & Auarice his suborner. 1618 T. Adams Happines of Church i. 166 Man is the maine suborner of mischiefe to his owne kind. 1674 M. Clifford Treat. Humane Reason 55 The three great suborners and corrupters of Humane Reason..the desire of Reputation, of Pleasure, and Profit. 1735 J. Oldmixon Hist. Eng.: William & Mary i. 41 Butler.., an Anabaptist Preacher, a Quack, a Plot-maker, a Suborner of Evidence. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. x. 137 The statute 5 Eliz. c. 9..inflicts..a fine of 40l. on the suborner. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxiv. 303 His employer and suborner. 1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld II. 440 The conspirator and suborner of murder. 1925 N. Amer. Rev. June 604 Too often the suborner, the jury-fixer and the corruptionist find a fertile field for their activities in these tribunals. 1960 M. Spark Bachelors xi. 207 You'll be charged with suborning, Marlene dear. The police may be on the alert for suborners. 2007 Times (Nexis) 5 Nov. 64 One picture here, of a man trying to bribe a jockey, says everything through the cruel, sharp jaw that the suborner digs into the jockey's shoulder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1577 |
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