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.
Subscriber
(Sub*scrib"er) n.
1. One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
2. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like. Dryden.
Subscript
(Sub"script) a. [L. subscriptus, p. p. See Subscribe.] Written below or underneath; as, iota
subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters written below and
usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See
Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.
Subscript
(Sub"script), n. Anything written below. Bentley.
Subscription
(Sub*scrip"tion) n. [L. subscriptio: cf. F. souscription.]
1. The act of subscribing.
2. That which is subscribed. Specifically: (a) A paper to which a signature is attached. (b) The signature
attached to a paper. (c) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name. (d) Sum subscribed; amount
of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
3. (Eccl.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.),
formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.
4. Submission; obedience. [Obs.]
You owe me no subscription.
Shak. 5. (Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
Subscriptive
(Sub*scrip"tive) a. Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature. "The subscriptive part."
Richardson. — Sub*scrip"tive*ly, adv.
Subsecute
(Sub"se*cute) v. t. [L. subsecutus, p. p. of subsequi. See Subsequent.] To follow closely,
or so as to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.]
To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could be subsecuted and overtaken.
E. Hall. Subsecutive
(Sub*sec"u*tive) a. [Cf. F. subsécutif.] Following in a train or succession. [R.]
Subsellium
(||Sub*sel"li*um) n.; pl. Subsellia [L.] (Eccl. Arch.) One of the stalls of the lower range
where there are two ranges. See Illust. of Stall.
Subsemitone
(Sub*sem"i*tone) n. (Mus.) The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic.
Subsensible
(Sub*sen"si*ble) a. Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.
Subseptuple
(Sub*sep"tu*ple) a. Having the ratio of one to seven. Bp. Wilkins.
