Dictionary entry

Subscribe

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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. Shak.

6. To declare over one's signature; to publish.

Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. Shak.