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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

... about plays, poems and pictures is made by small circles. Our art has never been national art: I cannot imagine our making the fuss about a great writer that is made about a second-rate journalist in Paris. It is Grace the cricketer for whom the hundred thousand subscribe their shilling: fancy a writer thus rewarded, even after scoring his century of popular novels. The winning of the Derby gives a new fillip to the monarchy itself. A Victor Hugo in London is a thought a faire rire. A Goethe ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... literature within the bushman's reach are newspapers. The townsman deems them equally essential to his well-being. Nearly everybody can read, and nearly everybody has leisure to do so. Again, the proportion of the population who can afford to purchase and subscribe to newspapers is ten times as large as in England; hence the number of sheets issued is comparatively much greater. Every country township has its weekly or bi-weekly organ. In Victoria alone there are over 200 different ...

— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny

... were preparing for it, saving a little money here, doing a little extra work there, so that they might be able to have presents ready for the monks, so that they might be able to subscribe to the lights, so that they would have a good dress ...

— The Soul of a People • H. Fielding

... me a quantity of articles about my beauty cut from out-of-town and foreign papers. I believe I'll subscribe to a clippings bureau. I hadn't ...

— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

... myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home; and I sincerely love 'every kindred and tongue and people and nation'. I subscribe to what my late truly learned and philosophical friend Mr Crosbie said, that the English are better animals than the Scots; they are nearer the sun; their blood is richer, and more mellow: but when I humour any of ...

— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell

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