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noun

Bribe n.

1.

A gift begged; a present. (Obs.)

2.

A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust. "Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe."

3.

That which seduces; seduction; allurement.

verb

Bribe v. t. (past & past part. bribed; pres. part. bribing)

1.

To rob or steal. (Obs.)

2.

To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to. "Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience."

3.

To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.

Bribe v. i.

1.

To commit robbery or theft. (Obs.)

2.

To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise. "An attempt to bribe, though unsuccessful, has been holden to be criminal, and the offender may be indicted." "The bard may supplicate, but cannot bribe."

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"Bribe" Quotes from Famous Books

... beauty to the taste of a nectarine, seem to be the various baits with which Nature lures her silly gudgeons. They shall eat, they shall propagate, and for the sake of pleasing themselves they shall hurry down the road which has been laid out for them. But there lurks no bribe in the smell and beauty of the flower. It's charm ...

— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro

... represented, he was to plunge into all the intrigues of the Court at which he resided, to discover and flatter every weakness of the prince, and of the favourite who governed the prince, and of the lacquey who governed the favourite. He was to compliment the mistress and bribe the confessor, to panegyrise or supplicate, to laugh or weep, to accommodate himself to every caprice, to lull every suspicion, to treasure every hint, to be everything, to observe everything, to endure everything. High ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... closed. How should he get past them, and past the customs officials? His stock of money would not furnish the high bribe that they would demand for letting him through at night and without a passport. Besides they ...

— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich

... the existing ministry have been owing to their having pursued measures the direct contrary to Mr. Pitt's. Such for instance are the concentration of the national force to one object; the abandonment of the subsidizing policy, so far at least as neither to goad nor bribe the continental courts into war, till the convictions of their subjects had rendered it a war of their own seeking; and above all, in their manly and generous reliance on the good sense of the English people, and on that ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... with the Chinese language, a work for a lifetime, or have an American interpreter. The practice of having a Chinese linguist is most damaging—the native linguist being invariably a lying knave, who becomes consul de facto, whom no native can approach without a bribe, which it is supposed goes in part to the consul. As the points where consuls are needed are numerous, some of them being where the honorable merchantman from the United States rarely visits, it may seem that the expense ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 • Various

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