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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Sŭb'or-nā'tion, n.

noun

n. [Fr. & Pr. subornation, Sp. sobornacion, It. subornazione.]

  1. (Law.) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone.
  2. The crime of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action.

Foul subornation is predominant. Shak.

Traits in Sir Isaac Newton already traceable in the sort of chicanery attending his subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy. De Quincey.