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.
2.
The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.
Foul subornation is predominant.
Shak.
The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy.
De Quinsey.
© Webster 1913.