Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bribing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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. --F. W.
Robertson.

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

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