subscribe

1. (ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.Examples: "Would you like to subscribe or subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?"ergative

2. (intransitive) To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.Examples: "[…] under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would subscribe to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would subscribe most heavily to beat me;"intransitive

3. (transitive) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.Examples: "Each man subscribed ten dollars."transitive

4. (business and finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.Examples: "The capital which had been subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up."

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

6. (archaic outside law) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).Examples: "[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 […]"