SUBSCRIBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subscribed mean? 

• SUBSCRIBED (adjective)
  The adjective SUBSCRIBED has 1 sense:

1. (of a contract or will or other document) having a signature written at the end

  Familiarity information: SUBSCRIBED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSCRIBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a contract or will or other document) having a signature written at the end

Context example:

the subscribed will

Similar:

signed (having a handwritten signature)

Domain category:

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

 Context examples 

I subscribed to this with all my heart, God knows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What could I do? In an evil hour I subscribed to a lie; and now only am I truly miserable.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It has been kept very quiet, for the capital was all privately subscribed, and it’s too good a thing to let the public into.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation; new regulations were made; improvements in diet and clothing introduced; the funds of the school were intrusted to the management of a committee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I swore and subscribed to these articles with great cheerfulness and content, although some of them were not so honourable as I could have wished; which proceeded wholly from the malice of Skyresh Bolgolam, the high-admiral: whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)