subscriptive

Adjective

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,...
   • 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...
   • 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...
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,...
   • 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...
   • 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...
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:
   • Imagination or supposition seem to involve what one might think of as a kind of subscriptive restraint, that is a mental cancellation of the subscription to the truth of the content that goes with assertion. - 2016,...
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:
   • 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...