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sub-signo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to mark or write beneath, to undersign, subscribe (mostly post-Aug.; syn. subscribo).

  1. I. Lit.: traditas notas subsignabimus Catonis maxime verbis, Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 33: Ciceronis sententiam ipsius verbis, id. 18, 25, 61, § 228: subsignatum dicitur quod ab aliquo subscriptum est, Dig. 50, 16, 39; cf.: adhuc subsignare dicimus pro subscribere, Fest. p. 281 Müll.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. * A. To set down, enter, register on a list: subsignari apud aerarium (praedia), Cic. Fl. 32, 80.
    2. B. To pledge by signing: PRAEDIA, Inscr. Grut. 207, 1 and 3: res pro cautelā litis, Cod. Just. 5, 37, 28 med.: facultates eorum, quae subsignatae sunt fisco, Dig. 50, 6, 5.
  3. III. Trop., to pledge; to engage, warrant: aliquid apud aliquem, Plin. Ep. 10, 3, 4: id jam nunc apud te subsigno, id. ib. 3, 1, 12.