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verb

Waive v. t. (past & past part. waived; pres. part. waiving) (Written also wave)

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."

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

(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. 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.

Waive v. i. To turn aside; to recede. (Obs.) "To waive from the word of Solomon."

noun

Waive n.

A waif; a castaway. (Obs.)

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Waive" Quotes from Famous Books

... object carried off has been replaced by an exactly similar object. Let me hasten to add that possibly my argument may not be confirmed by the facts. But I maintain that it is the first argument that ought to occur to us and that we are not entitled to waive it until we have made a ...

— The Hollow Needle • Maurice Leblanc

... exterior. The bringing of this ash to the kidney cell is a mechanical matter, based simply upon the flow of the blood. The seizing of the urea by the kidney cell is a vital phenomenon which we must waive for ...

— The Story of the Living Machine • H. W. Conn

... bone to snatch at its image, they drop the real causes to snatch at others, which from no possible human point of view are available or attainable. Their fallacy is a practical one. Let us see where it lies. Although I believe in free-will myself, I will waive that belief in this discussion, and assume with the Spencerians the predestination of all human actions. On that assumption I gladly allow that were the intelligence investigating the man's or the sparrow's death omniscient and omnipresent, able to take in the whole of time and space at a single ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... hereby agree to pay to Potash & Perlmutter Twenty-one hundred dollars ($2100) being the amount of a purchase made by J. Edward Kleebaum from them, if he fails to pay said twenty-one hundred dollars ($2100) on May 21st, 1909. I hereby waive notice of Kleebaum's default and Potash & Perlmutter shall not be required to exhaust their remedy against the said Kleebaum before recourse is had to me. If a petition in bankruptcy be filed by or against said Kleebaum in consideration aforesaid I promise ...

— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass

... a king, and can only be tried by my peers and by the pope, who is the head of Christendom. I might refuse to plead, refuse to take any part in this assembly, and appeal to the pope, who alone has power to punish kings. But I will waive my rights. I rely upon the honor and probity of the barons of Germany. I have done no man wrong, and would appear as fearlessly before an assembly of peasants as before a gathering of barons. Such faults as I may have, and none are without them, are not such as those with which I am charged. I have ...

— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty

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