Subscribe

/səbˈskɹaɪb/ · verb

Meaning

(archaic outside law) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic outside law) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
2. (transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
3. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
4. To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access, a cell phone plan, or a streaming service.
5. To believe or agree with a theory or an idea [with to].
6. To pay money to be a member of an organization.
7. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
8. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

Example Sentences

[They] subscribed their names under them.

[…] although the will is holographic, and a holographic instrument cannot be admitted to probate where testator told the subscribing witnesses that it was not his will, […]

Commission to take testimony: testimony of subscribing witnesses may be taken by commission […]

Parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.

Officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.

[E]very officer who shall hereafter be appointed, shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, subscribe these rules and regulations.

All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

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• subscribes
• subscribing
• subscribed

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