Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act.
- transitive verb To procure (perjured testimony).
- transitive verb To induce (a person) to commit perjury.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish; equip; adorn; ornament.
- To furnish or procure unlawfully; procure by indirect moans.
- To bribe or unlawfully procure to some act of wickedness—specifically, in law, to giving false testimony; induce, as a witness, to perjury.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Law) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
- transitive verb To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
induce tocommit anunlawful ormalicious act, or to commitperjury - verb transitive To
procure privately, or bycollusion ; toincite secretly; toinstigate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
- verb induce to commit perjury or give false testimony
- verb procure (false testimony or perjury)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Latin word that gave us "suborn" in the early part of the 16th century is "subornare," which translates literally as "to secretly furnish or equip."
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The solution was for the lender and the lender's agents to (1) instruct the borrower to report a certain income or even to fill out the application with false information, (2) suborn an appraiser to provide the necessary inflated market value, and (3) create fraudulent financial information that had at least minimal coherence.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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When we suborn violence, either tacitly or overtly, as a mechanism for accomplishing everything from a good dinner to global dominion, we merely sanction its use by others as a tool for achieving whatever aim they may deem desirable.
Randall Amster: Healing the Wounds: Transforming Our Culture of Violence Randall Amster 2011
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Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, are trying to suborn governments around the world in their efforts to gain complete and total control of how ‘product’ is distributed online, and by whom.
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When we suborn violence, either tacitly or overtly, as a mechanism for accomplishing everything from a good dinner to global dominion, we merely sanction its use by others as a tool for achieving whatever aim they may deem desirable.
Randall Amster: Healing the Wounds: Transforming Our Culture of Violence Randall Amster 2011
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The solution was for the lender and the lender's agents to (1) instruct the borrower to report a certain income or even to fill out the application with false information, (2) suborn an appraiser to provide the necessary inflated market value, and (3) create fraudulent financial information that had at least minimal coherence.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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The solution was for the lender and the lender's agents to (1) instruct the borrower to report a certain income or even to fill out the application with false information, (2) suborn an appraiser to provide the necessary inflated market value, and (3) create fraudulent financial information that had at least minimal coherence.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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The solution was for the lender and the lender's agents to (1) instruct the borrower to report a certain income or even to fill out the application with false information, (2) suborn an appraiser to provide the necessary inflated market value, and (3) create fraudulent financial information that had at least minimal coherence.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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The solution was for the lender and the lender's agents to (1) instruct the borrower to report a certain income or even to fill out the application with false information, (2) suborn an appraiser to provide the necessary inflated market value, and (3) create fraudulent financial information that had at least minimal coherence.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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Big Music (aka Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music) and Hollywood (aka Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney) are now close to a year into their campaign to suborn various national governments, the aim being to turn them into copyright enforcement divisions, funded by local taxpayers.
oroboros commented on the word suborn
Just heard John McCain use this word in place of subordinate! "...we have to suborn our priorities..."
August 15, 2007