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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}.] 
  1.  To  write  underneath,  as  one's  name  to  sign  (one's  name) 
  to  a  document. 
 
  [They]  subscribed  their  names  under  them  --Sir  T. 
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  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.  --Milman. 
 
  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.]  --Shak. 
 
  6.  To  declare  over  one's  signature;  to  publish.  [Obs.] 
 
  Either  or  must  shortly  hear  from  him  or  I  will 
  subscribe  him  a  coward.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  subscribed 
  adj  :  (of  a  contract  or  will  or  other  document)  having  a  signature 
  written  at  the  end  "the  subscribed  will" 




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