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subvention|səbˈvɛnʃən|
[a. OF. subvencion, -tion, = Pr. subventio, It. sovvenzione, Sp. subvencion, Pg. subvenção, ad. late L. subventio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subvenīre to subvene.]
1. A subsidy levied by the state. Obs. exc. Hist.
14..Secr. Secr. MS. Ashm. 396 fo. 2 Of kynges aides and subvencioun. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 1818 Grace Dieu ffor to exile By dyuers extorsyons Of dymes or Subvencions, or taylladges iffounde newe. 1868Milman St. Paul's iv. 89 Convocation proceeded to the less important affair of a subvention to the King.
†2. The provision of help, support, or relief. Also, an instance of this. Obs.
1535W. Marshall (title) The Forme and Maner of Subvention, or Helpying for pore People, devysed and practysed in the Cytie of Hypres in Flanders. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 6/2 Suche goods were geuen to the church.. to serue the publique subuention of the nedy. 1625Ussher Answ. Jesuit 374 By way of subuention, in helping those out whom at the time of his death he found there. 1657Twysden Vindic. Ch. Eng. iv. 80 They sometimes exhorted Christians to the subvention of the Holy Land. 1737Stackhouse Hist. Bible vi. ii. (1749) 845 The Manner, in which he is said to have been carry'd up, was, by the Subvention of a Cloud.
3. A grant of money for the support of an object or institution; occas. a grant in aid of necessitous persons; now esp. a grant from government or some other authority in support of an enterprise of public importance.
1851Gallenga Italy 85 By screening from losses the appaltatori, or shop-keepers, who farmed the public revenues, by private subventions. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. I. Introd. 3 They [sc. the Greek churches] were often bound together by mutual charitable subventions. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. i. iii. (1872) I. 22 The Crown-Prince..begged some dole or subvention for these poor people. 1860Mrs. W. P. Byrne Undercurr. Overl. II. 96 Subventions to madhouses, foundling hospitals, &c. 1881Nature XXIV. 426 The French Government have resolved to grant a subvention for erecting a statue. 1891Spectator 27 June, The resources of English wealth for the purpose of providing subventions for the Colonial Episcopate.
4. The granting of pecuniary aid for the support of an undertaking.
1868Rogers Pol. Econ. ix. (1876) 97 By inducing the possessor to export his capital in foreign loans, or for the subvention of foreign industry. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xxxii. 119 The ministry confessed its inability to reduce the colonies except by the subvention of foreign troops. 1894Daily News 8 June 3/4 They had not to pay anything towards the subvention of rural roads.
Hence subˈvention v. [cf. F. subventionner] trans., to support or assist by the payment of a subvention. (Only in pa. pple.)
1868Daily News 10 Nov., That national and subventioned establishment [the Théâtre Français]. 1880Sat. Rev. No. 1289. 52, 12 per cent. were French vessels subventioned by the Government. 1885American IX. 362 The society has from time to time subventioned learned works. 1904Daily Tel. 18 July 8/6 The German subventioned steamer Prinz Heinrich. 1909Expositor July 85 The German Oriental Society, subventioned by the German Emperor. |