Subscribe /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Subscribed; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

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.