1515. in Leadam, Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden Soc.), II. 80. The said mayre and Aldremen … be the brekers and subuerters of the good ordre and rule of the said Towne.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 298 b. The subuerter & deceyuer of the people.
1612. Taylor, Comm. Titus iii. 1 (1619), 547. How haue Christians … beene alwaies charged, that they were the onely subuerters of the place where they liued?
1697. Dryden, Life Virgil (1721), I. 44. Virgil … might deserve the title of Subverter of Superstitions, as well as Varro.
1764. Gibbon, Tri. Romans, Misc. Wks. 1814, IV. 380. The subverters of liberty.
1838. Thirlwall, Greece, xxviii. IV. 60. Cries which threatened the subverters of the constitution with death.
1863. De Morgan, in Athenæum, 10 Oct., 467/3. I will not, from henceforward, talk to any … constructor of perpetual motion, subverter of gravitation,… &c.
