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 Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.]  [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.   --Chaucer.
    We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.   --Barrow.
 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.
 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.