[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster
   1. to relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or
      claim; to refuse; to forego.
      1913 webster

            he waiveth milk, and flesh, and all.  --chaucer.
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            we absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions,
            absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
                                                  --barrow.
      1913 webster

   2. to throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
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   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.
          1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster
see also:
waived waiving vibrate waif wave 

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