Subscription

n.	1.	The act of subscribing.
	2.	That which is subscribed.
	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. You owe me no subscription. - Shak.
	5.	(Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
	6.	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.

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

SUBSCRIPTION, contracts. The placing a signature at the bottom of a written or printed engagement; or it is the attestation of a witness by so writing his name; but it has been holden that the attestation of an illiterate witness, by making his mark, is a sufficient subscription. 7 Bing. 457; 2 Ves. 454; Atk. 177; 1 Yes. jr. 11; 3 P. Wms. 253; 1 V. & B. 362. Vide To sign.
     2. By subscription is also understood the act by which a person contracts, in writing, to furnish a sum of money for a particular purpose; as, a subscription to a charitable institution, a subscription for a book, for a newspaper, and the like.

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