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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.
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