Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken. 2. (v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia SUBORN sub-orn' (hupoballo (Acts 6:11; only here in the New Testament)): The word means to introduce by collusion, to put one person in the place of another, to employ anyone in a secret manner and instruct such a one to act for and as though he were another person.