Crossword clues for suborned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suborn \Sub*orn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suborned; p. pr. & vb. n. Suborning.] [F. suborner, L. subornare; sub under, secretly + ornare to furnish, provide, equip, adorn. See Ornament.]
(Law) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
--Sir W. O. Russell.-
To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
Thou art suborned against his honor.
--Shak.Those who by despair suborn their death.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: suborn)
Usage examples of "suborned".
He handled the traitor contemptuously as a perjured, suborned witness, a false servant, a man who, as he proceeded to show, was a scoundrel steeped in crime, whose word was utterly worthless, and who, no doubt, had been bought to bring these charges against his sometime master.
I have not yet established if Captain Thorne was actually suborned, or merely taken in by my fellow-clone.
Theamh and Morat and whoever else you claim to have suborned, staged the entire thing simply to give you the chance to go north, where you would be able to work without hindrance.
As for the indispensable cleric, not the wildest optimist could suppose that the Reverend William Tuxted, who happened to be the only clergyman with whom Selina was well acquainted, could be suborned by any means whatsoever into performing his part in the affair.
Letty, swelling with wrath, could not afterwards be persuaded that Cardross had not suborned the blameless cleric into choosing a text aimed directly at herself.
Risa, my late wife was suborned by her unfortunately not-late aunt to serve as an in-House verifier.