▪ I. † subornate, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. subornātus, pa. pple. of subornāre to suborn.]
Suborned.
| 1430–1 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 375/2 Certeyns subornatz proves and persones of hir assent and covyne. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 63 Iulius Proculus, subornate by the Romanes, seide Romulus to haue apperede to hym. 1533 Bellenden Livy i. xvi. (S.T.S.) I. 91 Þe sonnys of Ancus (quhilkis has subornate þir lymmaris to sla þe king). 1560 Maitl. Club Misc. III. 225 Sche saw Jonet Watsone subornate and seducit be Williame and then repellet. 1590 Barrow & Greenwood in Confer. 33 Your subornate witnesses. |
b. adj. ? Underhand, false.
| a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 169 The cloked gentlenes, and subornate fashion of the duke of Yorke. |
▪ II. † subornate, v. Obs.
[f. L. subornāt-, pa. ppl. stem of subornāre to suborn.]
= suborn.
| 1537 Instit. Christen man A 7 Subornatynge fals wytnesse. a 1548 Hall Chron., Edw. IV. (1550) 40 The Frenche Kyng..caused a varlet to be subornated, in a cote armure of Fraunce. 1553 Brende Q. Curtius x. 6 He did subornate certain lewde persons..to bring in false accusations against him. |