subscribe

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to arrange to receive something regularly, or to express agreement

   Usage: Use subscribe to a magazine or service for a regular arrangement to receive it. Subscribe to an idea means agree with it, so the object changes how the phrase is understood.

   I subscribe to the museum's monthly journal to follow its new discoveries.

   I subscribe to two science magazines.

Simplified etymology

Subscribe entered English in the late Middle Ages from Latin subscribere, “write underneath.” It originally referred to signing at the bottom of a document, a sense also expressed by underwrite.

From Latin subscrībere, to write beneath, represented by subscrībō: sub- with scrībō, to write. Signing a document is one historical use in this word's family.

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