In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
WAIVE
forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego
(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”
waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense with
(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to; “We are dispensing with formalities”; “relinquish the old ideas”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)
(transitive, legal) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
(particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
(now rare) To put aside, avoid.
(obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
(obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
Etymology 2
Verb
waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)
(obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
(intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
Etymology 3
Noun
waive (plural waives)
(obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
Anagrams
• aview
Source: Wiktionary
Waive, n. Etym: [See Waive, v. t. ]
1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne.
2. (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.] Etym: [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.]
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)
Definition: 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.
Waive, v. i.
Definition: To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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