waive

[waive]

To waive is to give up one's right to do something. If you waive your right to help name your family's new puppy, you can't complain if he ends up being called "Mr. Tinkerbell Sweetheart Lovey Face."

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A waif; a castaway.

Verb
lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime

Verb
do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"


v. t.
A waif; a castaway.

v. t.
A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.

v. t.
To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

v. t.
To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

v. t.
To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.

v. t.
To desert; to abandon.

v. i.
To turn aside; to recede.


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.

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.
We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
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. &hand; 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. To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.]
To waive from the word of Solomon.

A waif; a castaway.

To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

To turn aside; to recede.

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