?c1524 in T. Percy Regulations & Establishm. Houshold Fifth Earl of Northumberland (1768) 406 Their be no Bribing at the said Dressour of the Service.

1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 92^v Anacletus sought wyth spendinge and brybinge, to winne and confirme all mens good wills towarde him.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. i. 242 The bribing of Scaurus came to light.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xvii. 126 The whole Artillery of kissing, flattering, bribing, and every other Weapon which is to be found in the whole Armory of Love.

1873 Contemp. Rev. July 220 Mr. William Murray was the instrument who managed the probably not very difficult bribings and whisperings which were necessary to bring it about.

1934 Daily Mail 9 Jan. 9/2 Stavisky would never return in handcuffs to Paris to tell the tale of his wholesale bribing of police and politicians.

2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians (2003) iii. 40 The bribing of voters was an accepted part of the procedure.

1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani Ep. Ded. sig. a.vi They shall se & well perceyue..our auaryce & couetousnesse by our bribyng & pollyng [L. ex rapacitate].

1554 Excellent & Right Learned Medit. sig. B.ii^v Our couetous cloining, beastlishe bribing, extreme extorcioning, deuylish deceiuing, spightful spoyling, & rauenous robbing of our natural brethren & countrimen, iustly demerite the inuasion of bloudi tiraunts.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 6^v Bribing and shifting haue neuer good ende.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 47 Alas, my brethren, what shall become of our gluttony, drunkennesse, pride, oppression, bribing, cosenages, adulteries, blasphemies, and our selues for them?

1530 G. Joye tr. M. Bucer Psalter of Dauid f. 180 Let the brybynge vsurars katche what so ever he hathe: and strange men despoyle tho thynges which he had gotene with grete labour.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 323 Verres..left nothyng behynde hym, as beeyng a taker and a brybyng feloe.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 135 But in the ende..this bribing wretch, was forced for to holde, a tipling bowthe, most like a clowne or snuche.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies i. 70 Bribing copesmates, and incroching Bisogniers.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. G.vi^v These brybinge magistrates, & iudges folow gyftes faster, then the fellowe woulde followe the puddynge.

1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage To Rdr. sig. B4 Some bribing officer, who thretning to carry him to prison, takes away all the money and lettes him slippe.

1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 19 Shewing howe grievous to the comon welth a bribing Judge is.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 243/2 (margin) Two brybyng monkes both disapoynted.

1604 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 22 Mar. (Parl. Archives HC/CL/JO/1/3) f. 34 Abandon temporizing smoothers, matchavilian politiquers, and corrupt bribing informers.

1781 W. Blackstone Rep. Cases Westminster-Hall I. 380 The Defendants were convicted..for Bribery at the last general Election..; Pitt being the bribing Agent, and Mead the Voter bribed.

1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. ii. xiv. 287 Bribing and corrupt boroughmongers.

1963 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 20 Aug. 13/8 The voter who supports a candidate for no other reason than that he promises bigger federal handouts..is just as guilty as a bribing politician.

2010 Business & Professional Ethics Jrnl. 29 40 Business bribes can include cash payments and all other non-cash goods or services the bribing firms provide to corrupt officials.

?1571 W. Kethe Serm. Blanford Forum f. 22 Haue we not Bull bief inough of our owne, but that we must be corrupted by your bribing Bull bief or Oxen?

1679 Mild Let. Farmers to Men of Buckingham (single sheet) 1/2 Did he not once make you a bribeing Present of Timber?

1893 Standard (Ogden, Utah Territory) 12 Apr. 4/3 Under the influence of bribing gold, the crime of demonetization of silver was accomplished.

1921 P. E. More tr. Plato in Relig. Plato iv. 103 The third point, that they can be placated by unjust men with bribing gifts, we must yield to no one, but rather must disprove.

2006 D. Bliss Being Best Man for Dummies iv. 57 Learn the names of the little ones and remember who their parents are... A few bribing sweets wouldn't go amiss either.