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Suborn

verb

(past & past part. suborned; pres. part. suborning)

Incite to commit a crime or an evil deed.

Procure (false testimony or perjury).

Induce to commit perjury or give false testimony.

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"Suborn" Quotes from Famous Books

... witnesses. Instead of taking the trouble to plough and sow, you expect to get a harvest by praying to an inscrutable Being. You marry without means, because you hold that God never sends a child without sending food for it to eat. Meanwhile you suborn 'unwarranted belief' by making belief a matter of reward and penalty. It is made a duty to dwell upon the arguments upon one side without attending to those upon the other, and 'the weaker the evidence the greater the merit ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen

... the blow accidentally. We can persuade him that this is his best defence, which perhaps it is after all, for nobody can prove that he was poaching, inasmuch as he really was not; whereas, if he were to show that he killed a man while attempting to suborn evidence, he would speedily find himself ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

Words linked to "Suborn" : procure, vitiate, secure, demoralize, demoralise, cause, corrupt, make, stimulate, perjure, have, subvert, pervert, debauch, profane, get, misdirect, induce, deprave, debase