[f. BRIBE v. + -ING2.]
† 1. Dishonest, thievish. Obs.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 323 a. Verres … left nothyng behynde hym, as beeyng a taker and a brybyng feloe.
1567. Harman, Caveat (1869), 74. These beastlye brybinge breeches.
† 2. That exacts or accepts bribes; venal. Obs.
1592. Greene, Art Conny catch., Pref. 4. Some bribing officer, who threatneth to carrie him to prison, takes awaie all the monie, and lets him slip.
1621. Elsing, Debates Ho. Lords (1870), 19. Shewing howe grievous to the comon welth a bribing Judge is.
1649. Cromwell, Lett., 31 Dec. They are accounted the bribingst people that are.
3. That gives bribes; that corrupts or seduces with or like a bribe.
c. 1670. Expost. Men Buckhm., 1/2. Did he not once make you a bribeing Present of Timber?
1818. Cobbett, Resid. U. S. (1822), 231. Bribing and corrupt boroughmongers.
