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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



... house they sent for Vicenti, and Roddy, having first forced him to subscribe to terrifying oaths, told the secret ...
— The White Mice • Richard Harding Davis
... too liberal for John. He had been brought up in too strait a sect to subscribe to ...
— Orange and Green - A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick • G. A. Henty
... I subscribe, nevertheless, to your observation, "that the late long war and short peace, with the enslaved state of the Press on the Continent, would occasion a chasm in the most interesting period of modern ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... Mary was founded in Virginia, with the most generous endowment of any pre-Revolutionary college, generous because of the help received from the mother country. It was the child of the Church of England, and its president and its professors had to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles. Subscription to a religious creed was also demanded of the president and tutors of the third American college, founded in 1701. This Collegiate Institute, as it was called, moved from place to place for more than a decade, but finally ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper
... want to subscribe for the 'Twin Crimes'?" And sez she, "I am sorry I didn't go over with you and canvass him." Poor thing! she little knew he had got beyend canvassin' and all other cares and troubles of life two hundred years ago. But Miss Meechim ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley


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