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English Dictionary: waive	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for waive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
waive v do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" Synonym(s): waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense with lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" Synonym(s): forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego Antonym(s): arrogate, claim, lay claim
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waive \Waive\, v. i. To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] To waive from the word of Solomon. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waive \Waive\, n. [See {Waive}, v. t. ] 1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] --Donne. 2. (O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See {Waive}, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waive \Waive\, v. 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. Note: 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.