'Waive' definitions:

Definition of 'waive'

From: WordNet
verb
Do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" [syn: waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense with]
verb
Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" [syn: forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego] [ant: arrogate, claim, lay claim]

Definition of 'Waive'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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]

Definition of 'Waive'

From: GCIDE
  • Waive \Waive\, n. [See Waive, v. t. ]
  • 1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] --Donne. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Waive'

From: GCIDE
  • Waive \Waive\, v. i. To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • To waive from the word of Solomon. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'waive'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Waive'