| Subscription 1. (n.) The act of subscribing. 2. (n.) That which is subscribed. 3. (n.) A paper to which a signature is attached. 4. (n.) The signature attached to a paper. 5. (n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name. 6. (n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund. 7. (n.) 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. 8. (n.) Submission; obedience. 9. (n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary. 10. (n.) 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. Thesaurus Entries John Hancock, OK, X, acceptance, accommodation, accordance, affirmance, affirmation, alms, alms fee, approbation, approval, authentication, authorization, autograph, award, awarding, bestowal, bestowment, certification, charity, christcross, cipher, collection, commitment, communication, concession, conferment, conferral, confirmation, contribution, cost, countermark, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, cross, deliverance, delivery, device, dole, donation, donative, dues, endorsement, endowment, fee, furnishment, gifting, giving, go-ahead, grant, granting, green light, hand, handout, impartation, impartment, imprimatur, initials, investiture, investment, liberality, mark, mark of signature, monogram, nod, notarization, obligation, offer, offering, offertory, okay, payment, permission, pittance, pledge, presentation, presentment, price, promise, provision, ratification, remittance, rubber stamp, sanction, seal, sigil, sign manual, signature, signet, stamp, stamp of approval, supplying, surrender, the nod, tithe, validation, visa, vise, votive offering, vouchsafement, warrant |