Hypertext Webster Gateway: "subscription"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Subscription \Sub*scrip"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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

subscription
n 1: a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine
for a given period of time
2: agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your
name
3: a pledged contribution
4: the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on
a document); "the deed was attested by the subscription of
his signature"

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