Waive

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1 Pronunciation 2 Noun 3 Verb 3.1 Transitive 3.2 Intransitive

Pronunciation

\Waive\

Noun

n. [See {Waive}, v. t. ]

1. A waif; a castaway. (Obs.) --w:Donne.
2. (O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.

Verb

Transitive

Imp. & p. p.: waived; p. pr. & vb. n.: waiving.

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.  --w:Chaucer.

        We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions,
        absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
                                             --w: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. --w: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.

Intransitive

To turn aside; to recede. (Obs.)

     To waive from the word of Solomon.       --Chaucer.