weive

English

Verb

weive (third-person singular simple present weives, present participle weiving, simple past and past participle weived)

1. Obsolete form of waive.

References

• “weive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Verb

weive

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Her leges wolde hem nought receive,
     So that they mote algates weive
     To ſeche londe in other place.

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