different between bribe vs aceldama

English

Etymology

From Old French briber (“go begging”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?b, IPA^(key): /b?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

bribe (plural bribes)

1. Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.
   • c. 1613-1625, Henry Hobart, Yardly v. Ellill

     Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe.

2. That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
   • 1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination

     Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.

   • 1974, George Fox, Mario Puzo, Earthquake

     Remy, this was a bribe! Our whole marriage has been nothing but a series of bribes!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:bribe

Derived terms

• bribeless
• bribeproof
• bribetaking

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Verb

bribe (third-person singular simple present bribes, present participle bribing, simple past and past participle bribed)

1. (transitive) To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
   • October 23, 1848, Frederick William Robertson, an address delivered at the Opening of The Working Men's Institute

     Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.

2. (transitive) To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.

Derived terms

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Anagrams

• ribbe

French

Etymology

Imitative. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ib/
• Rhymes: -ib

Noun

bribe f (plural bribes)

1. (obsolete) crumb (of bread)
2. scrap, bit

Further reading

• “bribe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (Akeldamákh), from Aramaic ???? (“field”) + ???? (“blood”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??s?ld?m?/, /??keld?m?/
• Hyphenation: a?cel?da?ma

Noun

aceldama (plural aceldamas)

1. The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood.
2. A field of bloodshed, a place of slaughter. [from 17th c.]
   • 1849, Thomas de Quincey, ‘The English Mail-Coach’:

     …a regiment already for some hours glorified and hallowed to the ear of all London, as lying stretched, by a large majority, upon one bloody aceldama […].

   • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 42:

     Our own trenches had been knocked silly, and all the area of attack had been turned into an Aceldama.

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