English English Dictionary

Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.

Anything written below.

The act of subscribing.

That which is subscribed.

A paper to which a signature is attached.

The signature attached to a paper.

Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.

Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.

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.

Submission; obedience.

That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.

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.

Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.

To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue.

Following in a train or succession.

of Subsellium

One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges. See Illust. of Stall.

The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic.

Deeper than the reach of the senses.

Having the ratio of one to seven.