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verb

Subscribe v. t. (past & past part. subscribed; pres. part. subscribing)

1.

To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document. "(They) subscribed their names under them."

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."

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.)

6.

To declare over one's signature; to publish. (Obs.) "Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward."

Subscribe v. i.

1.

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

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."

3.

To become surely; with for. (R.)

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."

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.

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