suborner
(səˈbɔːnə(r))
[f. suborn v. + -er1.]
One who suborns.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 163 Ambition & Auarice his suborner. 1602 W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 64 Suborners..which do minister occasion to the informer. 1629 T. Adams Rage Oppress. Wks. 607 Man is the maine suborner of mischiefe to his owne kind. 1632 Bp. Hall Hard Texts Acts v. 3 Thou..hast drawne in the holy Ghost as a suborner, and abetter of thy wickednesse. 1769 Blackstone Comm. IV. x. 137 The statute 5 Eliz. c. 9..inflicts..a fine of 40l. on the suborner. 1817 Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1907) II. 214 His employer and suborner. 1823 Bentham Not Paul 251 Were they not..so many suborners of this same perjury? 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop lxii, You perjurer, you suborner of evidence. 1874 Motley John of Barneveld II. 440 The conspirator and suborner of murder. |