Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Suborn \Sub*orn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suborned}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Suborning}.] [F. suborner, L. subornare; sub under,
   secretly + ornare to furnish, provide, equip, adorn. See
   {Ornament}.]
   1. (Law) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting
      to perjury, such oath being actually taken. --Sir W. O.
      Russell.

   2. To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by
      indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.

            Thou art suborned against his honor.  --Shak.

            Those who by despair suborn their death. --Dryden.