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
n. The act of one who suborns. vb. (present participle of suborn English)
Usage examples of "suborning".
They both knew how single-minded and arbitrary Space Station Construction Manager Ludmilla Barchenka had been in suborning all the materiel that would bring the project in on-line by its due date, including the forced employment of many Talents.
Winlock and her son on the stand and let them swear to the story they've offered to tell, I get Dianne off the hook but leave myself open to a charge of suborning perjury at any time Winlock wants to lower the boom on me.
Sometimes, such matters were accomplished by suborning a mage's servants to steal artifacts that weakened power to the point where the mage could be overcome by devious means.
She said that Lenny Sands told her you were instrumental in suborning organized crime figures into participating in covert CIA activities.
The minute you tell me that this man was alive and well when you left, you put me in a position of suborning perjury in the event I permit your wife and stepson to testify as witnesses for the defense that he was lying there in a stupor, apparently dead drunk.
Kilian being the kind of man he was, she wouldn't put it past him to be either intimidating or suborning the witnesses, or both, or worse.
She did mention a couple of her thoughts about intimidation and suborning of witnesses, along with the legal penalties for such activities.