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Webster 1913 Edition
Waive
1.
A waif; a castaway.
[Obs.]
Donne.
2.
(O. Eng. Law)
Waive
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Waived
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waiving
.] [OE.
waiven
, weiven
, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver
, quesver
, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa
to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip
to tremble. Cf. Vibrate
, Waif
.] [Written also
wave
.] 1.
To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
He
waiveth
milk, and flesh, and all. Chaucer.
We absolutely do renounce or
waive
our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. Barrow.
2.
To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
3.
(Law)
(a)
To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
(b)
(O. Eng. Law)
To desert; to abandon.
Burrill.
☞ The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.
Burrill.
Waive
,Verb.
I.
To turn aside; to recede.
[Obs.]
To
waive
from the word of Solomon. Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Waive
WAIVE
,Noun.