SUBSCRIBE

subscribe, support

(verb) adopt as a belief; “I subscribe to your view on abortion”

sign, subscribe

(verb) mark with one’s signature; write one’s name (on); “She signed the letter and sent it off”; “Please sign here”

subscribe, subscribe to, take

(verb) receive or obtain regularly; “We take the Times every day”

subscribe

(verb) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares; “The broker subscribed 500 shares”

pledge, subscribe

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

subscribe (third-person singular simple present subscribes, present participle subscribing, simple past and past participle subscribed)

(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.

To believe or agree with a theory or an idea (used with to).

To pay money to be a member of an organization.

(intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.

(transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

(business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.

(transitive) To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.

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

(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.

(obsolete, transitive) To declare over one's signature; to publish.

(transitive) To indicate interest in the communications made by a person or organization.

Source: Wiktionary

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Sub*scribe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subscribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Subscribing.] Etym: [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. More.

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.

Sub*scribe", v. i.

1. To sign one's name to a letter or other document. Shak.

2. 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.

3. To become surely; -- with for. [R.] Shak.

4. 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.

5. To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.

6. To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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