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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act.
  2. v. Law To induce (a person) to commit perjury.
  3. v. Law To procure (perjured testimony).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To furnish; equip; adorn; ornament.
  2. To furnish or procure unlawfully; procure by indirect moans.
  3. To bribe or unlawfully procure to some act of wickedness—specifically, in law, to giving false testimony; induce, as a witness, to perjury.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury
  2. v. transitive To procure privately, or by collusion; to incite secretly; to instigate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. (Law) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
  2. v. To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
  2. v. induce to commit perjury or give false testimony
  3. v. procure (false testimony or perjury)

Etymologies

  1. Borrowed from Latin sūbornāre. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin subōrnāre : sub-, secretly; see sub- + ōrnāre, to equip; see ar- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • oroboros Just heard John McCain use this word in place of subordinate! "...we have to suborn our priorities..." Aug 15, 2007

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