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waive

waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)

1. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
2. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
   • 1851, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, Law Dictionary and Glossary:

     but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.

3. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.

   If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.

   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Manciples Tale:

     Lat take a cat, and fostre hym wel with milk, / And tendre flessh, and make his couche of silk, / And lat hym seen a mous go by the wal, / Anon he weyveth milk and flessh and al [...].

4. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Barrow, Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors, Sermon LIX:

     We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.

waive (plural waives)

1. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.

Definizione dizionario waive

abolire

rinunciare

ritirare

togliere

Altri significati:

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

(transitive, UK, obsolete, law) To desert; to abandon. - Alexander Mansfield Burrill

(transitive) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

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

(obsolete) A waif; a castaway. - John Donne

(transitive, law) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses; to give up a right, privilege or restriction; as with a waiver.

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

(UK, obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law.

(intransitive, obsolete) To turn aside; to recede.