Obs. [Cf. UNDER-1 4 a, and older Du. onderschrijver.] One whose name is written or given below; a subscriber to a document.
1681. in Grant, Burgh Sch. Scot. (1876), II. iii. 136. We underscribers, keepers of Latin Schools, bind and oblige ourselves, that [etc.].
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2270/3. In Testification hereof, we Underscribers … Subscribed as followeth.
c. 1785. J. Brown (Haddington), Sel. Rem. (1807), 235. We underscribers having formed ourselves into a Society.
