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Subscribe   /səbskrˈaɪb/   Listen
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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"Subscribe" Quotes from Famous Books



... whether any one at the present day will be inclined to subscribe to this proposition in its whole extent.* (* Agassiz' own views have lately become essentially different, so far as can be made out from Rud. Wagner's notice of his 'Essay on Classification.' Agassiz himself does not attempt any criticism ...
— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller
... know you're going to settle down, Sam," he said. "It inspires me with more confidence in your affairs, and I may say that I stand ready to subscribe, in my daughter's name, for fifty thousand dollars' worth of the ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... and what part of the summer? I ask, because I propose to make you a visit on my way to, or return from, Albany, and wish to be certain of finding you at home. No political changes can ever diminish the pleasure with which I subscribe myself ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis
... thoughts any officer who is morally deserving of his commission would freely subscribe. He will look beyond the letter of his obligation and will accept in his own heart the total implications of ...
— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense
... be well for us," replied Count Colloredo, "if we subscribe unconditionally to the opinions of the lord chancellor. I, for my part, will do so all the more readily, that I confess to you my utter ignorance of the question which is to come before us to-day. I was really so preoccupied at ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach


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