Subornation \Sub`or*na"tion\, n. [F. subornation.]

1. (Law) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. --Blackstone.

2. The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.

Foul subornation is predominant. --Shak.

The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy. --De Quinsey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)