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subscriptionn.

Brit. /səbˈskrɪpʃn/, U.S. /səbˈskrɪpʃən/
Forms: late Middle English subcrypcyoun, late Middle English subscripcioun, late Middle English subscripcon, late Middle English–1500s subscripcion, 1500s subcrypcyon, 1500s subscryption, 1500s– subscription, 1600s–1700s subcription; Scottish pre-1700 subscripcion, pre-1700 subscripcione, pre-1700 subscripcon, pre-1700 subscripsioun, pre-1700 subscriptione, pre-1700 subscriptioun, pre-1700 subscriptioune, pre-1700 subsryption, pre-1700 1700s– subscription.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French subscription; Latin subscriptiōn-, subscriptiō.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French subscripcion, Middle French subscription (Middle French soubscripcion , soubzcription , Middle French, French souscription , †soubscription ) name or mark placed at the end of a document, frequently as an indication of its authenticity or in order to signify one's approval (13th cent. in Old French in a document from Liège), inscription, caption, especially one placed below a picture, portrait, etc. (c1365 with specific reference to such an inscription on coins), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin subscriptiōn-, subscriptiō something written below or after, inscription on the base of a statue, formula of greeting at the end of a letter, imperial rescript appended to a petition in answer to it, act of signing one's name, signature, in post-classical Latin also assent (1562 in a British source) < subscript- , past participial stem of subscrībere subscribe v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Old Occitan subscriptio , subscritio (both mid 14th cent.; earlier, with prefix substitution, sotzescriptio (1244)), Catalan subscripció (1398), Spanish subscripción (a1250 as †subscriptión ), Portuguese subscrição (13th cent. as †suscripçon ; also as †sobscriçõ , †subscripçõ (both 15th cent.), †subscripção (16th cent.)), Italian soscrizione (end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th cent.), (now more usually, with prefix substitution) sottoscrizione (1532; also †sottoscrittione )). Compare earlier superscription n.On the form history in French see note at subscribe v. With the semantic development in English compare French souscription in the senses ‘concluding clause or formula in a letter, together with the writer's signature’ (1611; now rare or historical), ‘undertaking by booksellers to order a certain number of a book or other publication before it is published’ (1717), ‘action of subscribing money to a fund, for a share issue, etc.’ (1718), ‘amount of money raised or guaranteed by a particular group of subscribers’ (1801). In subscription manual at sense 1a(b) after post-classical Latin subscriptio manualis (see manual adj.). In sense 4a after Italian †sottoscrittione (1588 in this sense (in the passage translated in quot. 1590) or earlier).
1.
a.
(a) A name or (esp. in early use) mark placed at the end of a document, frequently as an indication of its authenticity; a signature, a signed name. Now somewhat formal.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > [noun] > mark in place of signature
markOE
crossc1400
subscription1409
Christ-crossc1440
1409 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 320 I, Elizabeth, avowe to be chaste..And in witnesse ther of I wt myn awne hand makes here this subscripcion +.
?1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 23 (MED) The kyngis Renouncyng and yeldyng vp..was made, seyd, and wretyn by hym with subscripcion off his owne hande.
c1440 in T. Arnold Memorials St. Edmund's Abbey (1896) III. 228 This privilege conferme in al thyng, And with myn hond make a subscripcioun Of Cristes cros + for confirmacioun.
1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 226 The seales & subscriptions be so many, so auncient, and so faire, as cannot lightelie be counterfaicte.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xlii. 118 Other epistles of Cyprian in the Romaine tongue with the subscription of diuerse other byshops.
1613 J. Heath tr. P. Du Moulin Accomplishm. Prophecies iv. 279 At the end of the Councell of Florence, there is a long list of the names and subscriptions of the Greeke Bishops.
1690 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 27 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 Before thir witnesses to the subscriptions of the saids Marqueis and Marchiones of Atholl.
1773 A. Stuart Lett. to Ld. Mansfield i. 13 There was but one single act of forgery, that of the subscriptions of the witnesses to the certificate.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in Poems 81 All the blurr'd Subscriptions in my Book.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert vii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 213 Our sacred subscription is duly marked with the fitting tinge of green and purple.
1915 Southern Reporter 67 583/2 The first initial of the grantor's subscription to the deed as it appears of record..would, most likely, be taken for J.
1992 J. Martindale in C. Harper-Bill & R. Harvey Medieval Knighthood IV. 169 The same bishop of Limoges who put his subscription to the acta of the council of Charroux.
(b) Scottish. In the fuller form subscription manual (see manual adj. 1b). Frequently in the formula sign (also signet) and subscription manual. Now rare (historical in later use).
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1474 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 30 The commoun sele of cause..is to hungin togidder witht the subscripcione manuale of oure common clerc.
1494 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 359/1 Ane instrument..vnder the signe & subscriptioun manuale of Johne Durarne noter.
1550 in W. B. Cook Stirling Antiquary (1904) III. 248 Gevin vnder or signet and subscriptioun manual at or said castell ye xxviij day of Maii the zeir of god jaj vc fifty zeirs.
1640 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 268 Wch wordis he shall subscrybe with his signe and subscriptione manuell.
1740 Ars Notariatus i. iii. 30 The Notary being thus admitted, in his Protocol Book his Act of Admission and Cautionry, with the Sign and Subscription manual that he is to use at the End of all publick Instruments, are insert.
1817 Act & Warrant Poll Election Montrose 13 To attend to oversee and direct such election..and to form an authentic instrument thereupon, under their subscription manual.
1879 R. Douie Chron. Maltmen Craft Glasgow 75 The Sasine on their Charter under the subscription manual of Mr. John Spreull, Notary Public, is dated 17th July, 1650.
1907 D. Patrick in Statutes Sc. Church 117 Signs-manual or subscriptions-manual..were autograph signatures.
b. gen. Any passage of text written, printed, or inscribed at the end or bottom of a document, e.g. the concluding clause or formula of a letter with the writer's signature, the colophon of a book or the like, the note appended to the epistles in the New Testament, etc.In quot. 1702: that which is written beneath (in the working out of a calculation).
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > concluding clause or formula
subscriptionc1450
society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > piece of writing at end
subscriptionc1450
postscript1596
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > epilogue, envoy, or conclusion
parclosec1390
envoyc1398
conclusionc1405
l'envoy1430
subscriptionc1450
extraduction1533
epilogue1564
surclose1589
corollary1603
post-face1742
retroduction1786
explicit1849
snapper1857
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 659 Off his pistil a breef Subcrypcyoun Set lowly vndir.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 §6 Wherunto the same printers shalbe bounde to put the superscripcion and subscripcion in this forme, That is to saie: by the King and his Clergye, with addicion in the ende of the printers name..and yere of the printing of the same.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. B8 The maner of Salutation, [the]..order of taking leaue or farewell, the Subscription, and the outwarde direction.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. ii. sig. Kv How's this? Yours, if his owne?..Belike this is some new kind of subscription the Gallants vse. View more context for this quotation
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 80 The subscription to the first Epistle to Timothy.
1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Theoret. Arithm. iv. 68 Multiply the whole Subscription by the Quotient.
1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 104 Subscriptions for Letters. To the King; or To his most Excellent Majesty;..To the Queen, or, To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lii. 197 She dictated the farewel part, without hesitation; and when she came to the blessing and subscription, she took the pen, and..wrote the conclusion.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ xv. 378 The subscription of the first epistle to the Corinthians states that it was written from Philippi.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 170 Fust and Schoeffer, in the subscriptions to the books printed by them, lay no claim to the invention..of the art.
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 102/1 The subscription [to the additions to Esther]..refer to the whole book.
1930 F. B. Young Jim Redlake ii. i. 126 A snapshot taken under the palms at Cannes, the subscription told him, of the Grand Duke Sergei.
1981 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Feb. 712/1 The ‘subscription’ preceded by Mitte, Latin for ‘send’..gives the quantity ordered or preferably the dose of the medicine and the number of doses required.
2009 A. J. Köstenberger et al. Cradle, Cross, & Crown xi. 442 Subscriptions in some early manuscripts state that 2 Thessalonians was written from Athens.
c. An inscription or caption placed below a picture, portrait, etc.
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society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > inscription underneath something
subscription1571
1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste iii. vii. f. 125 The Athenians hadde the Image of Demosthenes, with a subscription of suche [Fr. auec vn tiltre de plus grant honneur].
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 772 These portraitures..with the subscription following.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 206 A large Picture..with this Subscription.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. lxiv. 81 Misson and others ascribe the repairing of this monument to the famous cardinal Pietro Bembo, but the subscription and year both shew, that the honour is due to his father.
1814 Gentleman's Mag. July 51 The..representation of a goat giving suck to the whelp of a wolf, with a subscription, which has been thus rendered.
1870 J. H. Friswell Mod. Men of Lett. 315 The pendant, the Rev. Charles Kingsley—in the subscription of the picture he had dropped the ‘reverend’—was..entirely English.
1915 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 5 497/2 A recent bulletin has a picture of a crowded lodging house dormitory with the subscription ‘A breeding place for germs’.
2007 G. Schmidt in A. Höfele et al. Representing Relig. Pluralization i. 76 The Latin subscription under the fresco depicting Constantine read..: ‘A: Constantinus in Anglia natus ibique Imperator creatus, [etc.]’.
d. Medicine. The part of a prescription which gives instructions for preparing the ingredients.
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the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > prescription or recipe > part of prescription
subscription1741
superscription1741
signature1856
1741 tr. H. D. Gaubius Compl. Extemporaneous Dispensatory 20 The (V.) fifth part of a formula, or bill, is the subscription, directing the apothecary in what form the physician wou'd have the ingredients made up, the manner in which they are to be so prepared, and the method in which they are to be applied, or exhibited by him to the patient.
1856 E. Parrish Introd. Pract. Pharmacy v. ii. 418 The prescription may be divided, for the purpose of study, into the following parts..: 1. The superscription. 2. The inscription. 3. The subscription. 4. The signature.
1906 B. Fantus Text Bk. Prescription Writing & Pharmacy (ed. 2) ii. 173 The subscription in case of lotions would be: misce, fiat lotio; mix, let a lotion be made.
2002 W. N. Kelly Pharmacy 65 The writing of the inscription, subscription, and signatura is filled with specific terminology, and often uses Latin terms and abbreviations.
2. The action or an act of putting a signature or (in early use) other mark on a document; the signing of one's name; the fact of having been signed by a particular person.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > [noun] > signing
subscribing1444
subscriving1445
signing1450
subscription1492
signature1570
subsignation1573
assignment1598
side-scription1758
1492 in C. Innes Bk. Thanes Cawdor (1859) 156 Writin at Lochcanmor under our signet and with the subscriptioune of our hand.
1560 J. Jewel Let. in J. Jewel & H. Cole True Copies Lett. sig. E.vi A Scrolle..whiche as by certain familiar Phrases,..by the subscription of your owne name, & by other tokens, appeared to me to be yours.
1592 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 586/1 Concerning subscriptioun of the signatures of the new infeftmentis of temporalities.
1648 Certain Quæres Common-councell London (single sheet) To receive their Concurrence to the late engagement, by subscription of their names.
1689 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 268 Vpon his subscription [he] was admitted to take his place in ye Councill.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. 127 The people..flocked to the subscription of this covenant.
a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. ii. §8. 429 A subscription by a cross or mark.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed i, in Tales Crusaders II. 21 The subscription of the contract of marriage had..been just concluded.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 715 The making and subscription of an oath in the House of Commons.
1912 Signatures First Jrnl.-bk. Royal Soc. Pref. The subscription of these signatures.
1936 N. J. Abercrombie Origins Jansenism ii. 271 It will be necessary to enforce the subscription of a formula of faith.
1997 C. Litzenberger Eng. Reformation & Laity 176 The public reading of the will followed by the subscription of witnesses' names seems to have been a normal part of the preparation for death in sixteenth-century Gloucestershire.
3.
a. Frequently with to. The action or an act of formally signifying one's assent to or compliance with something by signing one's name to or otherwise acknowledging a document, such as a statement of articles of religion, or a formal declaration of principles. Formerly sometimes: spec. declaration of assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England (now historical).
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the mind > language > statement > assent > [noun] > declaration of assent to something
subscription?1551
acclamation1565
?1551 Sessions against Gardiner in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 815/1 To requyre his conformitie and subscription to the sayde summission.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 1 Any other of the holy league of subscription.
a1639 J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ (1640) 8 Now that we have once said we are the Lords, and have subscribed to it, let us..have a care to say, we will be the Lords, and to stand to and make good our subscription.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vi. 155 We do indeed require subscription to our Articles.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 72 The persecuted Church of English in Frankford..demanded subscription to their discipline of every man.
1721 A. A. Sykes (title) The case of subscription to the XXXIX Articles considered.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. i. 141 Application made to parliament..for relief in the business of subscription.
1829 Monthly Rev. Aug. 582/1 Conferring the benefits of an academic education, unaccompanied by any subscription to articles of faith.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation i. 23 The Cambridge Act..abolished all subscription for degrees.
a1890 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. 148 A check upon insurrectionary thought, such as is exerted by subscriptions to Confessions of Faith.
1910 Relig. Bodies: 1906 (U.S. Dept. Commerce) II. 582/1 No subscription to specific form of words being required, admission to communion and full membership is on confession of faith before the elders and minister.
1962 E. Carpenter in G. F. Nuttall & O. Chadwick From Uniformity to Unity vi. 322 On 10 November [1834] the Heads of Houses at Oxford decided..to introduce a measure into Convocation to abolish subscription [as a requirement for admission to the university].
2008 A. A. Kass Giving Well, doing Good 330 It [sc. the Council on Foundations] made subscription to the document mandatory for all its members.
b. Assent, approval, agreement; (also) an instance of this.Sometimes hard to distinguish from sense 3a.
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the mind > language > statement > assent > [noun]
ensent1297
senta1375
accorda1393
assent?c1550
belief1566
subscription1580
accessiona1617
condescent1633
condescension1648
accessariness1654
homologation1656
assention1660
unity1760
assentment1818
the mind > language > statement > assent > [noun] > instance of
subscription1580
sign-off1942
1580 G. Harvey in E. Spenser & G. Harvey Three Proper & Wittie Lett. 44 You shal neuer haue my subscription or consent..to make your Carpēnter our Carpĕnter.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 827 For the excellencie of the Tobacco there found, he should happily haue the smokie subscriptions of many Humorists.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 52 To their opinion..I see no reason why I should yeeld my subscription.
c1650 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plant. (1856) 5 The more ye light of ye gospell grew, ye more yey urged their subscriptions to these corruptions.
1737 I. Watts Humility represented in Char. St. Paul iv. 47 A Subscription to his Doctrines of Grace, or a zealous Vindication of his most evangelical Opinions.
1750 Let. to Rev. G. Whitefield 19 How came you to offer your self for orders in a corrupt church, which yet..would not admit you without your subscription to its corruptions?
1828 Friend 1 6/2 Quakerism regards christianity as consisting, not in..a subscription to the opinions or the experiences of the wise and the good who have lived before us..but..as consisting in [etc.].
1870 Monthly Homœopathic Rev. 14 13 We have no desire to press faith upon them—to require subscription to a medical creed—but knowledge we have a right to expect.
1942 H. K. Smith Last Train from Berlin x. 245 Stalin's recent statement to the effect that the ‘German People Must Pay’ has not helped the situation any, nor has Eden's subscription to that slogan.
1981 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 67 338/1 Despite Hentoff's evident personal subscription to First Amendment freedoms, his book is quite temperate.
2007 Shakespeare Surv. 60 96/1 Critics tend to read this either as ironic..or as evidence of Shakespeare's subscription to patriarchal ideology.
†c. The action of acknowledging allegiance to someone; submission. Cf. subscribe v. 3b. Also (occasionally): allegiance, fealty. Obsolete.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] > obligation of loyalty > to a superior, the government, etc.
fayc1290
ligeance1377
lyance1390
allegiancea1425
fealtyc1460
allegiancy1577
subscription1608
ligeancy1643
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 18 I neuer gaue you kingdome, cald you children, You owe me no subscription . View more context for this quotation
1647 T. Manton Meate out of Eater 4 The cause of this unity, there shall be one Lord a joynt subscription and submission to Jesus Christ.
1680 R. Baxter Church-hist. Govt. Bishops sig. d Photius deposeth and re-ordaineth, and requireth subscription to him.
4.
a. A signed declaration or statement; (also) a declaration or statement requiring signature. Now rare except as implied in sense 4b.
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society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > signed declaration or statement
subscription1590
1590 R. Hitchcock tr. F. Sansovino Quintesence of Wit f. 96 All that which dooth please the Monarch himselfe, becomes Lawe in effect: the which he maye performe, either by letters or by subscriptions [It. sottoscrittioni], either by decrees, or by woords, or by edictes.
1599 Queen Elizabeth I Let. in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 40 Though you think the allowance of that Counsell, whose subscriptions are your Ecchoes, should..satisfie us.
1661 A. Marvell Let. 15 June in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 30 The way of maintenance layd out in your Act is directly opposed by a Subscription sent up to Colonell Gilby & my selfe.
1666 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 259 I have sent you here inclosed a subscription which I have taken vnder his hand.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 125 A Letter from the King, and a subscription from the Lords Commissioners.
1773 E. Burke Speech on Toleration Bill in Writings & Speeches (1981) II. 386 There was no subscription to which they were not ready to set their hands.
1851 R. Hussey Rise Papal Power ii. 80 It was argued, that they had no subscription from the Pope, nor ecclesiastical authority, to back them.
1955 E. H. Cookridge Net that covers World 124 He is required to sign a Subscription (Priznanye) in which he declares that he is aware that [etc.].
2001 Innes Rev. 52 83 All twelve members of the Society [of Jesus] in Scotland readily signed the subscription which incorporated them with the secular clergy.
b. Roman History. An imperial rescript giving an opinion on an individual case which has been submitted to the emperor by petition.So called because originally the opinion was written beneath the petition itself.
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society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute > royal or imperial > types of
golden bull1537
pragmatical sanction1585
pragmatic1587
pragmatic sanction1587
subscription1609
pragmatica1614
ukase1729
chrysobull1882
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xv. vi. 42 This Athanasius..was by commandement from the Emperour warned by his subscription to depose from his sacerdotall See.
1857 W. Grapel Sources Rom. Civil Law 54 The last [sc. rescripts] being again sub-divided into Pragmatic Sanctions, Epistles, and Subscriptions or Annotations.
1991 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 81 101 Subscriptions in our legal sources consist almost entirely of formulations of principle.
5.
a. The action or an act of subscribing money to a fund, for a share issue, etc., esp. as one of a number of individuals; the raising of money for a particular purpose by collecting contributions from a number of individuals.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > subscription > action of
subscription1616
1616 Briefe Declar. Present State Virginia 6 The summe of twelue pound ten shillings, to be paid within one Moneth after Subscription.
1643 (title) A declaration of both Houses of Parliament shewing the necessity of a present subscription of money and plate, for further supply of the army.
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. ii. vi. 122 The Treasurers appointed to receive the Moneys come in upon the Subscriptions for Ireland.
c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 137 They hir'd him with a subscription of losses, for which they gave him publick faith double to what really he had lost.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1682 (1955) IV. 290 The Academie which Monsieur Faubert did hope to procure to be builded by the subscription of worthy Gent: & noblemen.
1742 Acct. Rise, Progress, & State London Infirmary 3 Raising by publick Subscription, a London-Infirmary.
1762 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker (ed. 5) 21 They will scarce better themselves by any new subscription.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 96 There is a public ball by subscription every night.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 39 A certain hackney, which he..and another honest shopkeeper, combined to maintain by joint subscription.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. i. 221 There has been erected, apparently by subscription, a kind of Wooden Tent.
1889 W. C. Anderson Dict. Law 986 Where an advance has been made..by others in consequence of a subscription, before notice given of a withdrawal, the subscription becomes obligatory.
1912 World 7 May 698/2 100,000 cumulative 7 per cent. preference shares will be offered for subscription.
1922 H. Morgenthau & F. Strother All in Life-time iv. 59 He..telephoned me to note..Anthony N. Brady's subscription for 1,000 shares.
1987 I. Finlayson Scots (1988) xi. 188 The Evangelicals seceded to form the Free Church of Scotland, to be financed by voluntary subscription.
2003 Art Q. Spring 55/2 It took the Art Fund just two months to raise the full sum by public subscription.
b. An undertaking or agreement to subscribe a particular amount of money. Now rare.
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1673 Minute 6 Nov. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1757) III. 100 To give a sufficient bond to pay the same [sc. arrears]..and to declare withal, whether he will continue a member of the Society, and comply with the aforesaid subscription.
1748 Winter Evening's Conversat. 5 By Stock-jobbers he means dose dat be not able to comply vit dare Subscription, but subscribe for a large Sum.
1862 Hinds County (Mississippi) Gaz. 8 Oct. (advt.) A notice left with him..by parties desiring to comply with their subscriptions, will have prompt attention.
1869 B. V. Abbott & A. Abbott Gen. Digest Law Corporations 38/2 The general power of a corporation to forfeit stock, as a penalty for the subscriber's failure to comply with his subscription.
1990 F. G. Dawson First Latin Amer. Debt Crisis v. 111 Latin American bondholders had hitherto been able to secure credit to honour their subscriptions..by borrowing against the bonds as security.
c. A scheme for raising money by public subscription; a fund established in this way. Cf. to make (also take, take up) a subscription at Phrases.
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1704 Acct. Charity-schools (new ed.) 4 A School for about 30 Boys: the Subscription is about 20l. p. Ann. And it arises by each Subscribers contributing 2d p. Week.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber vi. 113 Many People of Quality came into a voluntary Subscription of twenty..Guineas a-piece, for the erecting a Theatre.
1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. 676 Bach and Abel..opened a subscription, about 1763, for a weekly concert.
1855 Poultry Chron. 2 530 A subscription is opened to present Mr. T. B. Wright, of Birmingham, with [etc.].
1856 J. Richardson Recoll. I. iii. 53 The parochial authorities..set on foot a subscription for the purchase of a piece of plate.
1902 H. Payne-Westbrook West-Brook Drives xxxvi. 356 He started a subscription to raise the amount.
1951 D. O. Evans Social Romanticism in France 17 Affirming that..women should be permitted to participate in a subscription for a fitting memorial to Newton.
2004 A. Koschnik in J. L. Pasley et al. Beyond Founders vi. 164 In December 1813 half a dozen young Philadelphians..resolved to open a subscription for a library and reading room.
d. An amount of money raised or guaranteed by a particular group of subscribers. Formerly also: †a group or body of subscribers (obsolete).
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > for or subscribed by several parties
the common pursea1400
common1540
purse1602
stock-pursea1665
subscription1730
slush fund1839
kitty1887
tarpaulin muster1889
tronc1928
International Monetary Fund1944
1730 J. Cheny Hist. List Horse-matches 145 On the 23d Day of June the 120 Guineas Subscription Money (and which Subscription is now expir'd) were run for at Richmond by five Year olds.
1756 J. Cox Faithful Narr. Thief-takers 15 A gentleman in the Commission of the Peace in that Neighbourhood, and the Treasurer of that Subscription. [Note] A Reward of 20l. for the taking of Thieves in Tottenham Division.
1762 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker (ed. 5) 46 (note) A large quantity of any new fund, commonly called Subscription.
1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music V. ii. vi. 161 He, with the assistance of a numerous subscription of lords, ladies, and gentry,..republished them.
1801 Edinb. Mag. Jan. 15/1 A number of gentlemen and merchants raised a new subscription of 60,000l. under the privileges and immunities of the former charter.
1842 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. ix. 169 At the suggestion of friends a subscription was raised to meet these liabilities.
1918 Reform Advocate 11 May 335/1 Morris Engelman..had sixty girls pass through the congregation, and a substantial subscription was realized.
1991 Parl. Hist. 10 97 Lambton, Ridley, and other Whig leaders eventually raised a subscription to relieve Grey to further expenditure.
6.
a. The act of becoming, or fact of being, a member of a society, a recognized benefactor of a charitable association, etc., in consequence of having subscribed money; the continued payment of an agreed amount of money to maintain one's membership of an organization; the fee or amount of money subscribed for this purpose.Typically distinguished from donation in being a recurrent as opposed to a single contribution.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > subscription
subscription1679
sub1711
1679 J. Maulyverer Let. 29 Nov. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 367 Had not some of our benefactours been very slow in paying their subscriptions.
1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) ii. 624 The Dean and Chapter have been no less bountiful, and the Clergy of the City are not backward in their Subscriptions.
1729 T. Cooke Tales 120 A Genius form'd like mine will soar at all, And boldly follow where Subscriptions call.
a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 183 Being applied to..for a charitable subscription.
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 11 That John Drew..and Tilden Sampson..be requested to receive subscriptions for the use of the institution.
1809 Monthly Mag. Feb. 8/1 The meetings are usually held at Freemason's Tavern..; the subscription is one guinea per annum.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxxiii. 300 The subscription to Almack's was ten guineas.
1919 J. Conrad Arrow of Gold ii. iii I wondered now why he didn't slip his hands into the sleeves of his coat..as begging Friars do when they come for a subscription.
1960 Archery (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 29/2 For the most part, club subscriptions are very modest compared with those in some other sports.
2009 Art Q. Winter 22/1 Patron members, who pledge an extra regular donation on top of their subscription, receive twice-yearly updates from curators.
b. An agreement to take and pay for a specified number of issues of a periodical, or (now more usually) the issues published during a specified period; the entitlement to receive a particular periodical for a given period; the money paid or to be paid for this purpose. Also: the amount of money required to pay for a book published by subscription (see sense 8a).
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1785 New Rev. June 450 This is to be a monthly publication... The subscription is two guineas for twelve volumes.
1799 Brit. Mercury 30 Apr. 4 Twelve Numbers of this Journal are to be published yearly,..they are sold by all the Booksellers of Germany, and the subscription is 4 rix-dollars, or 12 shillings.
1846 Godey's Lady's Bk. June 296/1 A gentleman called at our office last week and paid the subscription of one of our lady subscribers in Georgia, both for this year and the next.
1893 tr. H. de Balzac Human Comedy II. 111/2 Margaritis..counted out seven francs for his subscription to the ‘Children's Journal’ and gave them to the traveler.
1907 Rec. Columbia Hist. Soc. 10 14 Adams paid in advance a subscription for her book.
1932 Extension Mag. Feb. 64 (advt.) I want to take advantage of your special offer and enclose $3.50, for which enter..my subscription to Extension Magazine for one year and [etc.].
1987 C. D. Chase Mugged on Wall Street i. iv. 63 I remember when a lifetime subscription to Playboy was awarded to twenty-five brokers—compliments of an unsuspecting manager.
2010 M. Senate Love Goddess' Cooking School ii. 20 The hopeful, confident expression of a child about to attempt to sell a magazine subscription or Girl Scout cookies.
c. Regular payment for access to a commercially provided service; an agreement or contract for this. Also: the amount paid for such a service.
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1853 Mechanics' Mag. 19 Mar. 228/1 Another point [was]..the rate of subscription for water in Paris. The present tariff fixes at 5f. a year the daily supply of a hectolitre.
1879 Standard (London) 21 Aug. 5/5 On payment of a monthly subscription a telephone will be installed in one's house, just as gas or water.
1950 C. A. Siepmann Radio, Television & Society i. 3 The notion that listeners pay nothing for the [radio] services they receive is illusory. But at least no direct payment is involved either by way of tax or subscription.
1978 Black Enterprise May 14/2 So far, 1,900 people have taken out subscriptions to have cable systems installed in their homes.
1998 S. Sadler Situationist City (1999) iii. 147/1 The rapid growth of Internet subscription has indicated the technology's social potential.
2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 10 June v. 8/1 Software is delivered over the Internet and paid for with licenses, subscriptions or advertising.
d. The fact or action of subscribing to an electronic mailing list, newsgroup, etc. Cf. subscribe v. 9f.
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1981 Network Name Change is in Effect in net.general (Usenet newsgroup) 12 May You should use netnews -s to change your subscription from, for example net.human-nets to fa.human-nets.
1997 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 8 Nov. s7 Spamming..is a particularly noxious and not uncommon problem with wholesale subscription to newsgroups.
2004 B. G. Friedman Web Search Savvy iv. 63 Suspending or terminating a mailing list subscription is simple.
†7. A share in a commercial undertaking or a loan; the amount subscribed by a shareholder. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > financial interest or share
subscription1671
concern1748
piece1900
a piece (also share) of the action1938
1671 Minute Bk. Gen. Court Royal Afr. Co. (P.R.O.: T 70/100) f. 22 I Do Transferre fiue hundred pounds of my subscription in the new Joynt stock of ye Royall Company to the Rt. Hon. George Lord Berkeley.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Subscription, in the English Commerce, is used for the Share or Interest, particular Persons take in a public Stock, or a Trading Company, by writing their Names, and the Shares they require, in the Register thereof.
1738 A. Pope 7th Epist. 1st Bk. Horace in Wks. II. ii. 65 South-sea Subscriptions take who please.
1762 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker (ed. 5) 108 I would farther recommend to you, by no means to lend your subscription, at the time of the coming out of the receipts:..for they [sc. the Bears] borrow your Scrip to make good their illegal..bargains.
1835 18th Ann. Rep. Amer. Soc. colonizing Free People of Colour 21 Another distinguished friend of the Society, who had subscribed under the plan referred to, has since taken the amount of his subscription in the stock.
8.
a. A method of publishing a book whereby a discount is offered to those who agree to take copies, and make payment (either in full or in part), before publication. Esp. in by subscription.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > [noun] > taking up by or offering to trade
subscription1687
1681 T. Delaune & B. Keach Τροπολογία 76 Both Parts will contain upwards of a Hundred Sheets, and will be printed by Subscriptions.]
1687 (title) Proposals for printing (by subscription) an exposition on the whole book of Canticles.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Subscription for a Book, is when the Undertakers propose Advantages to those that take a certain Number of Copies at a set Price [Bailey 1730 adds: and lay down Part of the Money, before the Impression is finish'd].
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Walton's Polyglot Bible, which is the first Book ever printed by Way of Subscription.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 21 The Scotch-man gives lectures on the pronunciation of the English language, which he is now publishing by subscription.
1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 324 In 1766, she published by subscription a quarto volume of miscellanies.
1807 J. L. De Lolme Constit. Eng. Advert. p. ii In defect of encouragement from great men (and even from booksellers), I had recourse to a subscription.
1873 H. Curwen Hist. Booksellers 25 He waited four years before he ventured to publish, and then only by the safe method of subscription.
1890 S. S. Sprigge Methods Publ. 81 The system of publishing suggested by that firm..was that of ‘subscription’.
1929 J. D. Beresford in Trad. & Exper. in Present-day Lit. 48 Unless his novel [sc. James Joyce's Ulysses] is to be published by subscription, beyond the range of a police prosecution.
1973 Publishers Weekly 13 Aug. 30/2 Mark Twain..decided to publish ‘Huckleberry Finn’ by subscription in advance of publication.
2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 Oct. 19 Butleigh Amateur Rugby Football Club..was originally published by subscription, an old-fashioned but highly effective way of producing a book for a limited readership.
b. (a) The offering of a book to booksellers for sale by subscription; cf. subscribe v. 10b; (b) the taking up of a book by the trade; the extent to which a book is taken up; cf. subscribe v. 10c.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > buying books > taking of books by trade
subscription1836
society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > books > practices or systems
subscribing1751
subscription1836
net system1890
remaindering1907
bestsellerism1913
denetting1992
1836 C. Dickens Let. 14 Feb. (1965) I. 130 I hope you do not mean to delay the subscription [for Boz] beyond Tuesday.
1895 Bookselling June 163 Where the trade subscription may be..expected to cover the cost of the first edition.
1912 J. Shaylor Fascination of Bks. 145 Each new book when ready for publishing is brought to these establishments for ‘subscription’—that is, to ascertain how many copies will be bought.
1979 Bookseller 26 May 2504/4 Richard Baker's Music Guide (£3.95) had an excellent subscription. Check your stock.
2000 J. A. Secord Victorian Sensation iv. 145 The trade subscription..was relatively limited, and a slightly altered issue of fifteen hundred copies..was postponed until June 1846.
c. U.S. The practice of selling books by house-to-house canvassing. Chiefly in by subscription. See also Compounds 3. Now chiefly historical.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > books > house-to-house sale
subscription1852
1852 Mass. Directory (advt. section in front matter) Book agents wanted. Men are wanted to canvass for popular, pictorial, standard, and religious works, which are sold only by subscription.
1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 379/2 The sale of complete books of a less expensive character by subscription, as it is called, is..extensively resorted to,—the plan being to engage canvassers or book-agents..who..journey from door to door.
1918 E. L. D. Seymour Farm Knowl. IV. iii. 45 The books sold by subscription through traveling agents, and usually found on the shelves of the farmer's bookcase or on his table, are generally almost worthless.
2008 S. Courtney Joseph Hopkins Twichell xii. 124 The company sold books by subscription, its salesmen knocking on middle-class buyers' doors with books of doorstop heft.

Phrases

to make (also take, take up) a subscription: to establish a scheme of this kind; (also) to make or organize an informal collection. Chiefly U.S. in later use.
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1775 Town & Country Mag. Feb. 100/1 His breeches..were in a very tattered plight, which being observed by some gentlemen at Slaughter's coffee-house, they made a subscription to purchase a new pair.
1830 J. Montgomery Let. 2 July in Missionary Reporter 1 Sept. 491/1 The congregation of Warrior Run deferred taking up a subscription, until the Sabbath preceding their communion.
1832 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. Feb. 375 It was decided to take a subscription or collection near the 4th of July.
1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 168 To relieve the army a subscription was taken up by the ladies of Philadelphia.
1875 J. J. Monteiro Angola I. vii. 200 They made a subscription of beads, and presented it to the performers.
1897 Daily News 22 Apr. 6/3 [American sailor loq.] Let's make a subscription.
1917 Rotarian May 528/2 The Club..elected him an honorary member and took a subscription to get him a watch.
1982 E. Liebow Dr. Joe Bell ix. 151 A large group of nurses..took up a subscription and presented him with ‘a very handsome oak writing table and chair, together with [etc.].’
2009 A. Schrauwers Union is Strength iii. 115 The meeting appointed Mackenzie their agent, and took up a subscription to defray the expenses of his trip to London.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive (chiefly in sense 6), as subscription form, subscription money, subscription revenue, subscription share, etc.
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1642 Lords & Commons in Parl. doe Conceive (single sheet) John Wolleston, John Rowse, John Warner, and Tho. Andrewes, Aldermen of the City of London, are appointed Treasurers for the foresaid Subscription Moneyes.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. ix. 501 The Letter Money and Subscription Money being almost exhausted.
1715 Abstr. Articles Printing in C. F. E. Spurgeon 500 Years Chaucer Crit. (1914) I. 334 Books to be Delivered to the Subscribers Complt in Quires on paymt of their Subscription Money.
1792 Times 24 Aug. 1/1 Braunston Grand Junction Canal. To be disposed of Ten Subscription Shares.
1813 Scots Mag. Feb. 113/2 A general subscription among the inhabitants, by sending round a book..and by placing subscription-cards in the banks and other public offices.
1852 Liberator (Boston) 28 Mar. 52 He advises us not to embarrass ourselves, by going on with the publication.., unless our subscription revenue will insure an ample remuneration.
1861 Bookseller 26 Aug. 499 (advt.) Prospectuses and Subscription Forms, to enable each Bookseller to canvass his customers, are now ready.
1905 System Sept. 304/1 I recently went into a magazine office and looked over the subscription system used.
1956 Autocar 25 May 615/2 Stockholm now has a regular subscription scheme for car telephone installations.
1972 N.Y. Mag. 23 Oct. 97/2 One nice thing about the magazine business is the ‘float’, the subscription money you collect in advance.
1982 Which? Bk. Saving & Investing ii. 19 They decide that building society subscription shares will offer them the best overall return.
2010 S. Roby & B. Schreiber Becoming Jimi Hendrix 195 The fanzine's Web site..is packed with information on Hendrix's life, Hendrix's music, and subscription details.
b. Objective, as subscription-hunter, subscription-hunting n. and adj., etc.
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1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. p. xv If it is his untoward Fortune ever to descend so low..as to commence Subscription-Hunter.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. x An Essay upon the Comi-Tragical History of Subscription-Hunting.
1823 Christian Guardian Sept. 339/1 Nor does it absolutely demonstrate real success, when our hearers commence teachers, or missionary, or Bible subscription collectors.
1898 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 134 Energetic subscription-hunting ladies.
1906 Liberty Rev. Sept. 122 He asks them to hand their spare cash to the Labour Unions, so that he and his subscription-grabbing tribe may have the squandering of it.
1935 H. H. Bashford Lodgings for Twelve 188 The more importunate of the subscription-hunters.
1990 J. M. Robert Class, Sect & Party xii. 298 The ideological perspectives which were ‘sold’ through the successful subscription-hunting societies were the ones which guided the public actions of the middle classes.
C2. attributive, with the sense ‘supported or maintained by subscribers’; used esp. to designate organizations or events to which members, supporters, or participants pay a subscription, as subscription ball, subscription dance, subscription music, subscription school, etc. See also Compounds 5.
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1704 tr. Molière (title) Monsieur de Pourceaugnac... Acted at the Subscription Musick at the Theatre Royal.
1708 E. Hatton New View London II. 762 A Subscription School for 50 Girls.
1749 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 268 A subscription masquerade.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxii. 160 Had the Ball been what they call a Subscription Ball, at which people dress with more glare..this dress would have ben moe tolerable.
1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 205/1 He was master of the subscription charity-school at Bethnal-green.
1786 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 226 The 10th of October was the first of the subscription assemblies at Henley, which our son Phil had set on foot.
1804 W. Bingley North Wales I. xi. 176 One end of the house..is occupied by a subscription news-room for the inhabitants of Bangor and its neighbourhood.
1819 P. Egan Walks through Bath 35 The Subscription-House..at York-Buildings.
1826 J. Cook Fox-hunting 149 A manager of a subscription pack.
1831 H. Coleridge in Winter's Wreath 273 Suckling of infants will be exploded, as unproductive labour. Pap will be made by contract in subscription soup-kettles.
1881 Chess Player's Chron. 5 July 323/2 On Monday, the 11th inst, Mr Wyllie will engage in a subscription match with Messrs Birkenshaw and Strickland.
1922 Alpha Phi Q. June 215/1 We are hoping to make a few pennies for the Endowment Fund at our subscription bridge to be held at the chapter house, April 22.
1950 P. Bottome Under Skin xxxiii. 274 A subscription dance is much the best way of collecting money.
1980 Early Music 8 296/1 These subscription-balls were discontinued in 1863, on account of what was called ‘the plebeian invasion’.
2010 W. Pitman Victor Feldbrill 178 There was a break in Victor's Toronto schedule and he was invited to conduct a regular subscription series concert of the WSO.
C3. U.S. With reference to the practice of selling books by house-to-house canvassing (see sense 8c), as subscription agent, subscription publishing, etc. Now chiefly historical.
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1847 D. P. Thompson Locke Amsden vii. 146 The fellow..may be a broken-down pedler, or possibly a discarded subscription agent of catch-penny books or periodicals.
1859 Amer. Agriculturist June 188/3 (advt.) Agents are wanted by the subscriber, who has been successfully engaged in the Subscription Publishing business for the last twelve years.
1880 Publisher's Weekly (U.S.) 24 Apr. 425 There has been a great deal of grumbling in the retail trade..that so many good books have been taken out of its hands and put into those of subscription ‘agents’. Many writers, such as Mark Twain, confine themselves, in fact, to subscription publishing.
1911 Hist. Teacher's Mag. Apr. 180/2 Second-hand sets of art journals and fine art books, subscription publications and similar things.
1990 J. F. Kasson Rudeness & Civility ii. 45 Subscription publishing mobilized virtual armies of sales agents to sweep through cities, towns, and the surrounding countryside.
2007 D. Vaught After Gold Rush iii. x. 179 In early April, the subscription agents hit the road again.
C4. attributive, with the sense ‘involving or requiring a subscription to a commercial service’ (see sense 6c), as subscription package, subscription service, subscription site, etc.
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1905 Telephony Dec. 461/1 The Marion County Telephone Exchange has recently installed a new switchboard to meet the demands of its rapidly increasing rural subscription service.
1954 Billboard 9 Jan. 3/3 Action on subscription radio may set a precedent for authorization of pay-as-you-see TV.
1970 Stanford Law Rev. 22 894 These additional channels..will also permit repeats of programs and scheduling on subscription channels at prime time.
1986 Australian 16 June (Brisbane ed.) 15/4 The new service, called Subscription Teletext, will be run by Air Call Teletext.
1991 Sight & Sound Oct. 19/3 The BBC must agree to refuse all calls to..extend sponsorship or develop general subscription services.
1998 A. D. Corson-Finnerty & L. Blanchard Fundraising & Friend-raising on Web vii. 71 If your organization subscribes to America Online or CompuServe, it already has server space as part of the subscription package.
2009 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 30 May 31 A list of free and subscription sites for online newspaper archives.
C5.
subscription book n. (a) a book containing the names of those subscribing to any cause or object (with the amounts of their subscriptions); (b) U.S. a book sold from house to house by canvassers (now chiefly historical).
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > subscription > one who > list of
subscription rolla1676
subscription book1694
subscription paper1728
subscription list?1734
society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > book sold by itinerant dealers
chap-book1824
stall-literature1834
stationery literature1851
chap1883
subscription book1990
1694 (title) Articles of agreement..between the royal free burrows, cities, and others of their Majesties antient kingdom of Scotland, who shall be pleased to subscribe, and be concerned in the Scots linen-subscription-book.
1695 Abstr. Proposals for Bank on Tickets of Million-adventure (single sheet) The Subscription-Book lies open at the Outropers-Office.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 111 I consulted the subscription-book; and, perceiving the names of several old friends, began to consider the groupe with more attention.
1819 P. Egan Walks through Bath 97 Ladies and gentlemen disposed to become members, are requested to have their names entered in the society's subscription-book.
1856 N.Y. Musical Rev. & Gaz. 1 Nov. 345/2 (advt.) A series of illustrated works. To be sold exclusively by agents, of a style entirely new in subscription books.
1880 Publisher's Weekly (U.S.) 24 Apr. 425 (heading) The trade and subscription books.
1920 E. L. Shannon Money for Woman who wants It vii. 54 A young woman who decided to give up teaching to sell a high-grade set of subscription books.
1990 C. Scribner In Company of Writers vii. 144 These were known as ‘subscription books’, because they were sold on subscription by salesmen traveling around the country.
2010 A. Beaton Caledonia i. vi. 23 You have opened subscription books here in London for this new Scotch Trading Company. And you have already raised three hundred thousand pounds.
subscription club n. a club (in various senses) whose members pay a subscription.
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1789 Whole Proc. King's Comm. Peace (City of London & County of Middlesex) 402/1 Laying it to be the property of ther gentlemen belonging to the Subscription Club.
1829 S. Haigh Sketches Buenos Ayres & Chile 28 This diversion [sc. hunting]..was introduced by the merchants, who had a subscription club and were attired in scarlet coats.
1850 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 563/2 A sort of mutual-benefit subscription-club, which existed at Paris for the purpose of marrying its members to heiresses in different countries.
1943 Daily Jrnl.-World (Lawrence, Kansas) 2 Dec. 10/4 The subscription club for Christian Advocate is being made up. Give your $1.50 to your pastor.
1999 J. Tosh Man's Place 128 For the middle class the trend was emphatically away from the tavern club towards the subscription club in permanent (and secluded) premises.
subscription concert n. (originally) a concert whose costs are met by subscribers, esp. one of a series of such concerts; (later more generally) a concert, typically of classical music, to which admission is obtainable by paying a subscription in advance.
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1733 London Evening-Post 2 Jan. (advt.) Mr. Holcombe's subscription concert..is deferr'd till Friday the 26th instant, and to be continued every Friday till all are compleated.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxiv. 121 The first of our subscription-concerts..was attended by one hundred and twenty of the select, admittances being decided by ballot.
1934 J. H. Clapham & M. M. Clapham in G. M. Young Early Victorian Eng. I. iv. 239 At Birmingham the old-established Choral Society began its subscription concerts in 1841.
2011 Australian (Nexis) 22 Mar. 14 A freer, more relaxed spirit permeates the Australian String Quartet's playing in its opening subscription concert for the year.
subscription library n. a library supported or maintained by the subscriptions of individuals.
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1770 B. Franklin Let. 8 Feb. in Papers (1973) XVII. 65 In the year 1730, a subscription Library being set on foot in Philadelphia, he encouraged the same, by making several very valuable Presents to it, and procuring others from his Friends.
1853 H. B. Jones Adventures Austral. xiv. 194 From hence may be seen..a subscription library, supported by shareholders, and containing, at present, several thousand volumes.
1915 J. C. Powys Wood & Stone xiv. 318 He was an omnivorous reader and made incessant use of every subscription library that Yeoborough offered.
2011 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 14 Feb. 1 Schools, colleges and businesses, as well as individuals, could borrow art works for a few weeks—a bit like a subscription library.
subscription list n. a list of subscribers' names, frequently with the amounts of their subscriptions; a list to which people are invited to subscribe.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > subscription > one who > list of
subscription rolla1676
subscription book1694
subscription paper1728
subscription list?1734
?1734 ‘Pilgrim Plowden’ Farrago 169 A subscription-list is open'd for a new miscellany.
1833 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 733 We signed petitions, listened to fine speeches, entered our names on the subscription list of the Anti-slavery Society, and gave our mite.
1880 Publisher's Weekly (U.S.) 22 May 516 That he be enjoined and restrained..from interfering with the subscription-lists of said publications, and from attempting to discharge any subscriber from his subscription thereto.
1935 Rotarian Sept. 2/3 A fine looking young man came to my door with a subscription list for the striking relief campers.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 3/4 The ephemeral evidence of advertisements, subscription lists, bookplates and library stamps.
subscription paper n. a paper on which subscriptions to a particular cause are recorded or invited.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > subscription > one who > list of
subscription rolla1676
subscription book1694
subscription paper1728
subscription list?1734
1728 J. Buxton Let. 18 Mar. (2005) 130 Thank you for the subscription paper, the subject tempts me to encourage it.
1836 C. M. Sedgwick Poor Rich Man & Rich Poor Man iii. 26 I have been trying to persuade her to send round a subscription-paper to get money to go to New-York.
1872 C. D. Warner Saunterings p. x Let him start out among our business-houses with a subscription-paper to raise money for powder to be exploded in his honor.
a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) I. 267 A subscription paper setting forth its purpose would be circulated up and down the gulch.
2003 R. E. Shalhope Tale of New Eng. v. 138 When lightning burned Edward Savage's house to the ground, Buckley Squires brought a subscription paper by for the relief of the poor man and his family.
subscription price n. the price at which a book, periodical, etc., is offered to subscribers.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > other specific prices
subscription price1676
mint price1758
standard1778
pool price1789
O.P.1810
stumpage1835
mint value1839
maximum price1841
piece price1865
street price1865
supply price1870
base price1876
hammer-price1900
doorbuster1917
off-price1933
reference price1943
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument sig. e2 (advt.) Whosoever shall Purchase This Book within the 1st. 3 Months..shall be look'd upon as a Subscriber, and shall only pay for It, the Subscription Price, viz. (in Sheets) 12 s.
1788 Calcutta Chron. 17 Jan. The first number was published in January 1786; and the annual subscription-price proposed to be Forty Rupees.
1886 Perfect Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes Prospectus Subscription price, £1 1s; early application is needed to secure a copy.
1891 Academy 21 Feb. 185/2 The new publication..will be published monthly at a subscription price of eight rupees per annum, including postage.
1969 Physics Bull. Jan. 23/1 Subscription prices are kept relatively low and are applied towards ‘output’ production costs.
2004 BusinessWeek 12 July 67/3 The Atlantic Monthly..is preparing to double its average subscription price.
subscription purse n. now historical a sum of money collected by subscription and offered as a prize in a horse race or other contest.
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1725 Evening Post 17 June On Tuesday the 17th of August, will be run for on Widemarsh..a subscription Purse of Forty Guineas Value at the least, Thirty Six Guineas being already collected.
1811 Sporting Mag. 38 221 The subscription-purse of a hunting club.
1897 J. H. Wallace Horse in Amer. vii. 90 The principal prizes were called ‘Subscription Purses’, the distance almost invariably two miles, and the weight carried ten stone.
2000 M. Huggins Flat Racing & Brit. Society v. 118 Prizefighting..was associated with the races, often in an ad hoc manner through the raising of a subscription purse among grandstand spectators.
subscription receipt n. a receipt for a subscription (in various senses).Originally: a receipt for a share or shares taken up in a loan or commercial undertaking; cf. scrip n.4 1a.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > types of
bill of lading1599
note1601
bill of loading1626
tally1626
bank receipt1699
subscription receipt1720
treasury certificate1791
warrant1825
tally of sol1843
stock receipt1901
1720 D. Dalrymple Time Bargains tried by Rules of Equity 10 The Bargains on Stock, &c. are..such as are already in a manner compleated by transferring the Stock, or assigning the Subscription Receipt.
1762 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker (ed. 5) 172 The subscription receipts thus paid in full, are called in the Alley, Heavy-Horse.
1772 T. Mortimer Elements Commerce, Politics & Finances 396 If the second or third purchasers in the course of circulation at market, are holders of the subscription receipts at the time of a payment.
1859 Athenæum 25 June 825/2 (advt.) The Subscribers..will have free admittance to the Palace and Grounds..upon presenting their subscription receipts for the year.
1903 Maccabæan Jan. 12 The list of candidates is published in the newspaper itself: the subscription receipt has a coupon which serves as a ballot paper.
1978 Economica 45 11 Subscribers received assignable subscription receipts (known as ‘scrip’), which when signed were virtually bearer securities.
2009 S. A. P. Murray Library viii. 147 (caption) This 1815 Library Company of Philadelphia subscription receipt includes a hefty library fine for the patron ‘neglecting to make’ a payment due to the company.
subscription roll n. a roll recording the names of subscribers.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > subscription > one who > list of
subscription rolla1676
subscription book1694
subscription paper1728
subscription list?1734
a1676 M. Hale tr. C. Nepos Life P. Atticus (1677) 142 They thought..that his Name should be the first in the Subscription-Roll.
1710 Acct. Charity-schools Great Brit. & Ireland (ed. 9) 53 (heading) A form of a subscription-roll for a charity-school.
1864 Gardener’s Monthly Sept. 271/1 We are highly pleased by even a solitary addition to our subscription roll.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. (Parade Suppl.) 11/2 (advt.) The subscription rolls will then be permanently and irrevocably closed.
2006 J. S. Rossi Uncharted Territory viii. 211 Included on the subscription roll were the names of all the American bishops and the heads of NCWC departments.
subscription room n. a room reserved for the use of subscribers (in a gentlemen's club, a stock exchange, etc.).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room > in a club or hotel
subscription room1754
private room1797
1754 Public Advertiser 29 Mar. Macklin's Subscription Room will be open'd To-morrow, at Seven o'Clock in the Evening.
1784 J. Hartley Hist. Westm. Election 330 Committees and Sub-committees are now sitting in every corner of the Liberty of Westminster, from the Subscription-rooms in St. James's to the Divers Kens in St. Giles's.
1812 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 171 The innocent amusement..deserving of all praise as a preventive substitute for the stall, the kennel, and the subscription-room.
1914 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 5/1 The subscription-room of the Corn Exchange will..be open for the convenience of members.
2008 L. Carlyle Never romance Rake vii. 201 Rothewell..found his friends in the Jockey Club's subscription room poring over the descriptions of the horses to be auctioned that day.
subscription seat n. a seat (in a theatre, opera house, etc.) for which one pays a subscription; spec. one reserved for the subscriber at specified times.
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1790 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 664 And our Subscription seats are crowded.
1858 N.Y. Herald 18 Feb. 4/5 The sale of subscription seats for the ensuing Opera season will be commenced today.
1937 Musical Times 78 740/1 If you had a weekly subscription seat for a season of six months with a company of this kind you would have little to complain of.
2011 C. E. Benzecry Opera Fanatic i. 32 Subscription seats are held for a long time and are nontransferable.
subscription society n. = subscription club n.
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society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > to which subscription is paid
subscription society1770
1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 124 [Spitalfields] handkerchief-weavers..entered into a subscription of six-pence on every loom, to support their cause against the masters, one of whom..insisted..that his men should not belong to the subscription-society.
1802 J. Feltham Picture of London 210 Last winter a number of amateurs of the haut ton, formed a subscription society for the performance..of small pieces, French and English.
1911 Times 16 Oct. 12/3 Both these societies, the Little French Theatre and the Théâtre Moderne, are subscription societies.
2010 J. Bohstedt Politics of Provisions v. 238 Colquhoun's Soup Kitchens for Dummies (as we might call it today) left nothing to chance, including how to organize a subscription society and create beneficiaries' tickets, how to equip an office [etc.].
subscription television n. originally U.S. television broadcast in such a manner that it is available only to subscribers.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > types of television system
radiovision1924
colour television1927
phonovision1927
Scophony1932
stratovision1945
subscription television1945
Phonevision1947
pay television1950
subscription TV1950
telemeter1951
Web TV1952
pay TV1954
toll television1956
digital television1957
slot television1958
digital TV1959
satellite television1961
satellite TV1961
cable television1965
satellite1982
1945 Radio News Mar. 112/2 Scophony Corp. of America is seriously mulling ‘subscription television’ and in time would make sight-sound programs available for about $2.25 weekly.
1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection viii. 62 An unmanned roving vehicle on Mars could probably be supported by subscription television.
2010 G. Turner Ordinary People & Media iii. 71 New kinds of journalism seem to be emerging every day through online platforms or subscription television.
subscription TV n. originally U.S. = subscription television n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > types of television system
radiovision1924
colour television1927
phonovision1927
Scophony1932
stratovision1945
subscription television1945
Phonevision1947
pay television1950
subscription TV1950
telemeter1951
Web TV1952
pay TV1954
toll television1956
digital television1957
slot television1958
digital TV1959
satellite television1961
satellite TV1961
cable television1965
satellite1982
1950 Radio-Electronics Dec. 12/3 Subscription TV began a series of test broadcasts over station WOR-TV in New York recently.
1954 W. F. Hellmuth in W. Adams Struct. Amer. Industry (rev. ed.) x. 397 Subscription or pay-as-you-see TV, which is still in its infancy, offers promise of improved revenue from telecasts of quality films.
1982 D. Ayer et al. in G. Kindem Amer. Movie Industry xii. 221 Large-screen theater television was tried..and subscription TV was discussed.
2008 V. Nightingale in M. Pickering Res. Methods Cultural Stud. vi. 108 The programme is broadcast primarily on subscription TV (at least in Australia where I live).

Derivatives

subˈscriptionless adj. without subscriptions; requiring no subscription to be paid.
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1845 Minutes Comm. Council Educ. 1844 II. 454 The subscriptionless schools attached to vigorous Sunday-schools..appear to rely chiefly upon their liberty to use the books and apparatus of the Sunday-school.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 2/2 By depriving the school, already subscriptionless, of this aid grant.
1947 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 10 Aug. 4/3 The ‘pub’ is..an unofficial debating society—almost a subscriptionless club.
2002 M. Schmidt in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conf. II. 869 (title) Subscriptionless mobile networking: anonymity and privacy aspects within personal area networks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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