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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
subornation
    n 1: underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do
         something improper or unlawful
    2: perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Subornation \Sub`or*na"tion\, n. [F. subornation.]
   1. (Law) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a
      person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.
      --Blackstone.
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   2. The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or
      bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.
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            Foul subornation is predominant.      --Shak.
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            The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of
            managers in the Leibnitz controversy. --De Quinsey.
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