Category:Waive

Waive, n. Etym: [see waive, v. t. ]

1. A waif; a castaway. [obs.] Donne.

2. (o. Eng. Law)

Defn: a woman put out of the protection of the law. See waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the note.

Waive Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.] Etym: [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)

Defn: 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.

Waive Waive, v. i.

Defn: to turn aside; to recede. [obs.] To waive from the word of solomon. Chaucer.