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  1. 1. v. t. A waif; a castaway. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. t. To desert; to abandon. Source: opted
  7. 7. v. i. To turn aside; to recede. Source: opted
  8. 8. v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to Source: wordnet
  9. 9. v. lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime Source: wordnet
  10. 10. 1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne. 2. (O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note. 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. 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. To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer. Source: webster
  11. 11. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t.,3 (b), and the Note. Source: adambom
  12. 12. v:100 v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to Source: ecdict

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