Subnervare

To hamstring by cutting the sinews of the legs and thighs. It was an old custom meretrices et impudieas mu Meres subnervare, Wharton. SUBNOTATIONS (Lat.)

In civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law. See "Rescript." SUBORN (Lat. subornare, from sub, under, and omare, to prepare).

In criminal law. To procure another to commit perjury. Steph. Crim. Law, 74. Liteirally, to instruct one privily, or in an underhanded manner, what to say; to prepare secretly, or underhand; to procure unlawfully. Sayer, 292. Subornare est quasi subtus in aure ipsum male omare, to suborn is to instruct one privily, as by whispering in his ear, with a bad design. 3 Inst. 167.

To ham-string by cutting the sinews of the legs and thighs. It was an old custom meretrices et impudicas mulieres subnervare. Wharton.