subscribe Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb offer to buy, as of stocks and shares
- The broker subscribed 500 shares
verb mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
sign.
- She signed the letter and sent it off
- Please sign here
verb adopt as a belief
support.
- I subscribe to your view on abortion
verb pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals
pledge.
- I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station
verb receive or obtain regularly
subscribe to; take.
- We take the Times every day

L. subscribere, subscriptum; sub under + scribere to write: cf. F. souscrire. See Scribe.

imperfect & past participle Subscribed ; present participle & verbal noun Subscribing

To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
[They] subscribed their names under them. Sir T. More.
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. Milman.
To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.
To sign away; to yield; to surrender. Obs. Shak.
To declare over one's signature; to publish. Obs.
Either or must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. Shak.

To sign one's name to a letter or other document. Shak.
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.
To become surely; -- with for. R. Shak.
To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong. Obs.
I will subscribe, and say I wronged the duke. Shak.
To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.
To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.