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Definition of Bribing
1. bribe [v] - See also: bribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bribing
Literary usage of Bribing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps, Andrew Amos (1838)
"Of this nature are perjury, and subornation of perjury ; attaint of false
verdict; (6) bribing a witness to absent bribing a wit- himself, in order that he ..."
2. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... so bribing or attempting to bril>e, or so demanding or receiving a bribe, fee,
reward, or testimonial, to testify against any person or persons who may ..."
3. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"Mutual Insurance Companies for bribing at Athens. — Bribes of common Voters.—bribing
Judges ; Legislators.-—Bribes by a Government of its own Citizens. ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"... which consists in this: A certam number of agents, selected for their skill
and experience in the arts of deluding, persuading, and bribing members, ..."
5. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"Major Ebenezer Stevens. [No. 1156.] THE CASE OF JOHN LINK. Accused of bribing
Two Officers for Securing Relief from Certain Military Duty. ..."
6. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"The rigour of the Scotch government, their conniving and bribing; the lewdness
and debauchery of elders in secret. ..."
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