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Bribe   /braɪb/   Listen
noun
Bribe  n.  
1.
A gift begged; a present. (Obs.)
2.
A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust. "Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe."
3.
That which seduces; seduction; allurement.


verb
Bribe  v. t.  (past & past part. bribed; pres. part. bribing)  
1.
To rob or steal. (Obs.)
2.
To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to. "Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience."
3.
To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.


Bribe  v. i.  
1.
To commit robbery or theft. (Obs.)
2.
To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise. "An attempt to bribe, though unsuccessful, has been holden to be criminal, and the offender may be indicted." "The bard may supplicate, but cannot bribe."





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"Bribe" Quotes from Famous Books



... speak with all freedom, convinced Crewe that his attempt to gain an interview was quite hopeless. She gave him much information concerning her mistress—none of it false, but all misleading—and in the end had to resist an offer of gold coins, pressed upon her as a bribe for her good word ...
— In the Year of Jubilee • George Gissing
... rich man will bribe the beggar to vote as he dictates," replied Anaxagoras; "and thus his power of doing evil ...
— Philothea - A Grecian Romance • Lydia Maria Child
... in, between free and slave-state men, see vol. i.; rival constitutions of; admission of, under Lecompton Constitution, urged by Buchanan; opposed by Douglas; attempt of Congress to bribe into acceptance of Lecompton Constitution; rejects offer; ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II • John T. Morse
... the Presbyterian form of church-government and discipline, and introduce prelacy into Scotland: for which purpose he was by him sent as commissioner to both the general assemblies 1608 and 1610. He brought some English doctors to persuade, a strong guard to intimidate the faithful, and money to bribe those of a contrary disposition; which he distributed to these mercenary creatures for their votes. He so far succeeded, as to get a new set of bishops erected, and then returned to England, where, with the wages of iniquity, he built a sumptuous palace at Berwick. When ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie
... day was the Red Lyon, which was opened in 1637 by Nicholas Upshall, the Quaker, who later was hanged for trying to bribe a jailer to pass some food into the jail to two ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers


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