Dictionary entry

Subscribe (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. Shak.

4. To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.

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.