† over-ˈbribe, v. Obs.
[over- 11, 20.]
trans. To gain over by bribery; to bribe over again.
| 1618 Bolton Florus (1636) 162 Iugurtha so over-bribed his Army also, that..he got the Victory. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 116 He who would be bribed to undertake a base thing by one, would be over-bribed to retort the baseness. |