Subscription : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Subscription	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Subscription
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subscription n a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name a pledged contribution the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document); "the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subscription \Subscrip"tion\, n. [L. subscriptio: cf. F. souscription.] 1. The act of subscribing. 2. That which is subscribed. Specifically: (a) A paper to which a signature is attached. (b) The signature attached to a paper. (c) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name. (d) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription* to a fund. 3. (Eccl.) 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. 4. Submission; obedience. [Obs.] You owe me no subscription. --Shak. 5. (Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.