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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.

(2): ( v. i.) To become surely; - with for.

(3): ( v. t.) To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.

(4): ( v. t.) 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.

(5): ( v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.

(6): ( v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.

(7): ( v. t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

(8): ( v. t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.

(9): ( v. i.) To sign one's name to a letter or other document.

(10): ( v. i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.

(11): ( v. i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.

(12): ( v. i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.

King James Dictionary [2]

Subscri'Be, L. subscribo sub and scribo, to write.

1. To sign with one's own hand to give consent to something written, or to bind one's self by writing one's name beneath as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract a man subscribes a bond or articles of agreement. 2. To attest by writing one's name beneath as, officers subscribe their official acts and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies of records. 3. To promise to give by writing one's name as, each man subscribed ten dollars or ten shillings. 4. To submit. Not in use.

Subscri'Be, To promise to give a certain sum by setting one's name to a paper. The paper was offered and many subscribed.

1. To assent as, I could not subscribe to his opinion.

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