Subscription

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Submission; obedience.

II. Subscription ·noun That which is subscribed.

III. Subscription ·noun The signature attached to a paper.

IV. Subscription ·noun A paper to which a signature is attached.

V. Subscription ·noun The act of Subscribing.

VI. Subscription ·noun Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.

VII. Subscription ·noun That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.

VIII. Subscription ·noun Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.

IX. Subscription ·noun 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.

X. Subscription ·noun A method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.