From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Waive \Waive\, verb (used with an object) [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}.]
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "waived": abandoned, abjured, ceded, dispensed with, disposed of, extra, forgone, forsworn, fresh, held back, held in reserve, held out, in abeyance, in hand, mint, new, original, pristine, put aside, put by, recanted, released, relinquished, renounced, reserve, retracted, sacrificed, saved, spare, stored, surrendered, suspended, to spare, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unhandled, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, yielded
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