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suborn

[suh-bawrn] / səˈbɔrn /
VERB
incite to commit crime
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Suborn, sub-orn′, v.t. to cause to commit a perjury: to procure indirectly.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

When they abandoned the guard, however, he admonished a Norwegian boy named Oscar Suborn to keep close watch there for us, and Thursday morning, Sept.

From The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself by Younger, Cole

"Suborn evidence," muttered John Ayliffe to himself; for though ready to do any act that might advance his purpose, he did not like to hear it called by its right name.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various




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