One who takes bribes.
1549. Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 88. This is the noble thefte of princes, and of magistrates. Thei are bribe-takers.
1585. Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 35. He neither was a bribe-taker, nor an extortioner.
1626. Raleigh’s Ghost, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), III. 539. Gondomar … one of the four bribe-takers for the profane privileges.
So Bribe-taking vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1549. Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 130. I wold the Iudges woulde take forth theyr lesson, that there myghte be no more iniquitye vsed, nor brybe-takynge.
1880. H. M. Hyndman, in Fortn. Rev., Feb., 221. The only people who throve were rowdies and bribe-taking judges.
