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subscriptive

subscriptive adjective: of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.

Adjective

subscriptive (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.
    • 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.1785, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa; Or, the History of a Young Lady
    • 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...1823, Frederick Butler, Sketches of Universal History, Sacred and Profane, page 256
  2. Of or pertaining to subscription (signing up and usually paying for something).
    • 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.1973, Northwestern University, Preprints, page 24
    • While there remain organizations with growing subscriptive bases, many theaters with previously strong subscriptions have seen that base erode, some faster than others.1983, Joseph V. Melillo, Market the Arts!, page 68
  3. Of or pertaining to belief in or commitment to something.
    • A conscious effort must be made to be more environmentally friendly and subscriptive to the tenets of sustainable development.2003, John Ratcliffe, Michael Stubbs, Urban Planning And Real Estate Development, page 537
    • In contrast subscriptive advocacy involves a commitment to the cause being pursued.2012, Tom Wilks, Advocacy and Social Work Practice, page 73
  4. Derived from the choices of the user or client.
    • We also wanted the teachers to learn how to be "subscriptive" instead of "prescriptive."1972, Paul A. Olson, The University Can't Train Teachers, page 62
    • Note again that this church's approach is consistent with the subscriptive approach to program development.2002, Leon McKenzie, R. Michael Harton, The Religious Education of Adults, page 151

Examples of subscriptive in a sentence

  • 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.1988, Benjamin Uffenheimer, Graf Henning Reventlow, Creative Biblical Exegesis, page 95:
  • These provisions have a strongly subscriptive and voluntaristic character, and bear a marked resemblance to rules used to regulate the membership of associations.2010, Kirsty Gover, Tribal Constitutionalism, page 45:
  • This subscriptive system of ploughing was seen as creating the need for a division of ploughed land between those involved.2019, Trevor Rowley, The Origins of Open Field Agriculture, page 131:
  • Usually, the high-risk health-based or safety-based arenas yield prescriptive rather than subscriptive specification and requirements.2022, Robert M. Sanford, Donald G. Holtgrieve, Environmental Impact Assessment in the United States:

Origin of subscriptive

From Latin subscrīptus (perfect passive participle of subscrībō) + -ive. By surface analysis, subscript (literally “underwrite”) + -ive.

Words formed from subscriptive

Questions about subscriptive

What does subscriptive mean?
Subscriptive means of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.
How do you use subscriptive in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is subscriptive?
Subscriptive is an adjective.

Words near subscriptive in the dictionary

  1. subscription boxes
  2. subscription trap
  3. subscription traps
  4. subscriptionless
  5. subscriptions
  6. subscriptive
  7. subscriptively
  8. subscripts
  9. subscrive
  10. subscrived
  11. subscriver

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