weive

English

Verb

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

Obsolete form of waive.

References

weive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Middle English

Verb

weive

Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, 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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