noun submission; obedience.
2. subscription ·noun that which is subscribed.
3. subscription ·noun the signature attached to a paper.
4. subscription ·noun a paper to which a signature is attached.
5. subscription ·noun the act of subscribing.
6. subscription ·noun consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
7. subscription ·noun that part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
8. subscription ·noun sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
9. 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.
10. 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.