Meaning

Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.
2. Of or pertaining to subscription (signing up and usually paying for something).
3. Of or pertaining to belief in or commitment to something.
4. Derived from the choices of the user or client.

Example Sentences

I made the messenger wait, while I transcribed it. I have endeavoured to imitate the subscriptive part; and in the Letter made pauses, where, to the best of my remembrance, she paused.

When the marquis La Fayette (who had been released by Gen. Bonaparte, at the peace of Campo Formio, from the dungeon of Olmutz,) was called upon to give his subscriptive vote to the first consul, as consul for life, he addressed this note to the consul: — " The marquis La Fayette presents his compliments to Gen. Bonaparte, and will most cheerfully give him his vote as first consul for life, provided he will restore freedom of speech, and freedom of the press to the French people.

Perhaps one ought to go even further and hypothesize that the super- and subscriptive notices represent a remarkable and possibly even critical feeling towards literary individuality.

The subscriptive type of operation would allow for the identification of travel demands and the service of these travel demands according to pre-booked or standing requests.

While there remain organizations with growing subscriptive bases, many theaters with previously strong subscriptions have seen that base erode, some faster than others.

The Commercial Code provides for the incorporation of a stock corporation by either a "promotive incorporation" whereby the promoters take the total number of shares to be issued at the time of incorporation, or a "subscriptive incorporation" whereby the promoters take only a part of the shares and invite subscription for the rest of the shares.

These provisions have a strongly subscriptive and voluntaristic character, and bear a marked resemblance to rules used to regulate the membership of associations.

The problem posed by antidiscrimination law for kinship-based groups in the liberal democracies can be summarised as follows: the liberal framework of antidiscrimination law accommodates groups so long as these are demonstrably subscriptive, consent-based associations that admit persons on the basis of attributes that are not immutable or inherent.

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Use subscriptive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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