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▪ I. subscribing, vbl. n.|səbˈskraɪbɪŋ|
[f. subscribe v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb subscribe, subscription.
1602Archpriest Controv. (Camden) II. 7 [Not] any subscribing of names to any thing we should make answere to. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 191 Since the subscribeing of this, I am informed yt it is very doubtfull whether Deuchry bee in Aberfoile or no. 1710[Bedford] Vind. Ch. Eng. 121 Some Alterations were to be made to the Articles between their first Subscribing and their last Voting. 1751Warburton Note Pope's Wks. IV. 166 The subscribing for a Book, which does honour to one's Age and Country. 1762T. Mortimer Ev. Man own Broker (ed. 5) 172 The first deposit..is made on or about the time of subscribing. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 285 The subscribing to a few regulations. 1855Poultry Chron. 15 Aug. 555 The subscriptions shall be considered due at the time of subscribing. 1856Ellis & Blackburn Cases Queen's Bench IV. 454 But neither does the statute appoint where the will shall be subscribed by the attesting witnesses; and therefore a subscribing in any part may be sufficient.
attrib.1712Addison Spect. No. 271 ⁋2 The subscribing Part at the End of them [sc. Letters]. 1912Shaylor Fascin. Bks. 220 It is to the subscribing department that publishers look for a tone and impetus to be given to a new book.
▪ II. subscribing, ppl. a.|səbˈskraɪbɪŋ|
[f. subscribe v. + -ing2.]
That subscribes, attests or assents to a document, etc.
[1651implied in non-subscribing: see subscriber 1.] 1808W. Wilson Hist. Diss. Ch. I. 165 The unceremonious manner in which he treats Mr. Reynolds, and his subscribing brethren. 1855in Ellis & Blackburn Cases Queen's Bench (1856) IV. 452 The execution of the will by the testator and by the other two subscribing witnesses. 1867Spedding Publ. & Authors 40 For 5 copies sold to a subscribing bookseller, he receives 85s. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 211 Each of the subscribing cities [viz. to the Dutch East India Co.] was represented by a college or chamber. 1903Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 6 A subscribing..is not the only conservative church. |