waive

Definitions

1. 1.(O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
4. 4.(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.
5. 5.To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note called?
• What is to throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert called?
• What is to turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer called?