Obs. [ad. L. subornātus, pa. pple. of subornāre to SUBORN.] Suborned.
1430–1. Rolls of Parlt., IV. 375/2. Certeyns subornatz proves and persones of hir assent and covyne.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), III. 63. Iulius Proculus, subornate by the Romanes, seide Romulus to haue apperede to hym.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, I. xvi. (S.T.S.), I. 91. Þe sonnys of Ancus (quhilkis has subornate þir lymmaris to sla þe king).
1560. Maitl. Club Misc., III. 225. Sche saw Jonet Watsone subornate and seducit be Williame and then repellet.
1590. Barrow & Greenwood, in Confer., 33. Your subornate witnesses.
b. adj. ? Underhand, false.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 169. The cloked gentlenes, and subornate fashion of the duke of Yorke.
