[f. BRIBE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb BRIBE; † a. thieving; † b. extortion; c. corruption by bribes. Also attrib.
1549. Latimer, Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 130. If there shall be brybynge, they [Judges] knowe the peryl of it.
1573. Tusser, Husb., x. (1878), 21. Bribing and shifting haue seldom good end.
1618. Bolton, Florus, III. i. 161. The bribing of Scaurus came to light.
1634. Sanderson, Serm., II. 288. Then what crouching, and fawning, and bribing, and dawbing, to have the matter taken up in a private chamber?
1839. Marryat, Phant. Ship, xxxi. We may get away by bribing.
