'Subscription' definitions:

Definition of 'subscription'

From: WordNet
noun
A payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time
noun
Agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name
noun
A pledged contribution
noun
The act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document); "the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature"

Definition of 'Subscription'

From: GCIDE
  • Subscription \Sub*scrip"tion\, n. [L. subscriptio: cf. F. souscription.]
  • 1. The act of subscribing. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Submission; obedience. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • You owe me no subscription. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary. [1913 Webster]