(n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
(n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
(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.
(n.) Submission; obedience.
(n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
(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.