Crossword clues for subscribe
subscribe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subscribe \Sub*scribe"\, v. i.
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.
Subscribe \Sub*scribe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subscribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Subscribing.] [L. subscribere, subscriptum; sub under + scribere to write: cf. F. souscrire. See Scribe.]
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To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
[They] subscribed their names under them.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "to sign at the bottom of a document," from Latin subscribere "write, write underneath, sign one's name; register," also figuratively "assent, agree to, approve," from sub "underneath" (see sub-) + scribere "write" (see script (n.)). The meaning "give one's consent" (by subscribing one's name) first recorded mid-15c.; that of "contribute money to" 1630s; and that of "become a regular buyer of a publication" 1711, all originally literal. Related: Subscribed; subscribing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context ergative English) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time. 2 To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan. 3 To believe or agree with a theory or an ide
4 To pay money to be a member of an organization. 5 (context intransitive English) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund. 6 (context transitive English) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount. 7 (context business and finance English) To agree to buy shares in a company. 8 (context transitive English) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation. 9 (context archaic English) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name). 10 (context obsolete English) To sign away; to yield; to surrender. 11 (context obsolete English) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong. 12 (context obsolete transitive English) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
WordNet
v. offer to buy, as of stocks and shares; "The broker subscribed 500 shares"
mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here" [syn: sign]
adopt as a belief; "I subscribe to your view on abortion" [syn: support]
pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station" [syn: pledge]
receive or obtain by regular payment; "We take the Times every day" [syn: subscribe to, take]
Usage examples of "subscribe".
One of the best things you can do to ensure that short science fiction remains alive and plentiful in the market is to subscribe to whatever magazine you like best.
For these reasons he proposed, that although the term of subscribing should be protracted till the thirtieth day of May, the encouragement of three pounds ten shillings per centum per annum should not be continued to the second subscribers longer than till the fifth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five.
Hampshire public, subscribed handsomely to the county charities, called assiduously upon all the county folk, and laid himself out in a word to take that position in Hampshire, and in the Empire afterwards, to which he thought his prodigious talents justly entitled him.
I immediately offered to procure a good company at my expense, if the boxes were at once subscribed for, and the monopoly of the faro bank granted to me.
And though it seemed to be loyal to the Republic and to subscribe to its democracy, its leaders, as we have seen, were negotiating with the Nazis to give Hitler the chancellorship before they were outbid by Papen and the Nationalists.
Budd did not subscribe to the rule that a host must not outdress his guests.
Club all subscribed to some basic principles that marked a dramatic break with Parlementaire argument.
To render them more effectual, some stipulations were probably required on the side of the king of Persia, which appeared so very repugnant either to his interest or to his dignity, that Narses could not be persuaded to subscribe them.
Contemporary theory, to which I subscribe, by the way, argues that aging is a polygenic trait.
It simply refers to anyone in the ancient world who subscribed to any of the numerous polytheistic religions of the day.
After a residence at Antioch of four years, the hand of Theodosius subscribed an edict, which ranked him with Simon the magician, proscribed his opinions and followers, condemned his writings to the flames, and banished his person first to Petra, in Arabia, and at length to Oasis, one of the islands of the Libyan desert.
Doctor Sanderling subscribed to the ancient belief that all heavenly bodies visible in the night sky revolved around the earth.
Which done, she sayd these words of course as follow : Behold, his nose is whole, his eyes safe, his eares without scarre, his lips untouched, and his chin sound : all which was written and noted in tables, and subscribed with the hands of witnesses to confirme the same.
The Czar Peter, in the full possession of despotic power, submitted to the judgment of Russia, of Europe, and of posterity, the reasons which had compelled him to subscribe the condemnation of a criminal, or at least of a degenerate son.
Yet, while so many unjust and extravagant wills were every day dictated by cunning and subscribed by folly, a few were the result of rational esteem and virtuous gratitude.