Definitions for: Subscribe


[v] mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here"
[v] adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion"
[v] receive or obtain by regular payment; "We take the Times every day"
[v] offer to buy, as of stocks and shares; "The broker subscribed 500 shares"
[v] pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, esp. at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station"



Webster (1913) Definition: Sub*scribe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subscribed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Subscribing.] [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.


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.

Synonyms: pledge, sign, subscribe to, support, take

See Also: agree, approve, bid, buy, check in, concord, concur, donate, hold, O.K., offer, okay, purchase, rubricate, sanction, sign away, sign in, sign over, tender, write

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