Category:Subscribe

Sub*scribe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subscribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Subscribing.] Etym: [l. subscribere, subscriptum; sub under + Scribere to write: cf. F. souscrire. See scribe.]

1. To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a Document. [they] subscribed their names under them. Sir t. More.

2. To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something Written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name Beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man Subscribes a bond. All the bishops subscribed the sentence. Milman.

3. To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe Their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or Records.

4. To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, Each man subscribed ten dollars.

5. To sign away; to yield; to surrender. [obs.] Shak.

6. To declare over one's signature; to publish. [obs.] Either or must shortly hear from him, or i will subscribe him a Coward. Shak.

Subscribe Sub*scribe", v. i.

1. To sign one's name to a letter or other document. Shak.

2. To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; Hence, to assent; to agree. So spake, so wished, much humbled eve; but fate subscribed not. Milton.

3. To become surely; -- with for. [r.] Shak.

4. To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong. [obs.] I will subscribe, and say i wronged the duke. Shak.

5. To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain Sum.

6. To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.