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Overrule v. t. (past & past part. overruled; pres. part. overruling)

To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.

To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter; as, God overrules the purposes of men; the chairman overruled the point of order. "His passion and animosity overruled his conscience." "These (difficulties) I had habitually overruled."

(Law) To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as, the plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.

Overrule v. i. To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules.

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Etymology of 'Overrule'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overrule" Quotes from Famous Books

... sacred trust. But is not that God who saved us once from death able to deliver us again? Is his arm shortened, that he cannot save? Then let them heat the fiery furnace! That God in whom we trust will yet deliver us from this calamity, and overrule this dark providence ...

— The Young Captives - A Story of Judah and Babylon • Erasmus W. Jones

... with his bride, if Don Alonso would immediately use his influence with the Queen, and urge the necessity of the delay. He was aware that the high spirit of Leonor would, under any circumstances, deeply resent such a measure; still he confidently relied on his own abilities and persuasion to overrule any objection on her part. He hurried therefore to her apartment, craved admittance, which was granted, and found himself before his intended bride, rendered still more beautiful by the costly ornaments with ...

— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio

... conjectured likelihood, and so go by reason, the poet doth so far exceed him, as he is to frame his example to that which is most reasonable, be it in warlike, politic, or private matters; where the historian in his bare WAS hath many times that which we call fortune to overrule the best wisdom. Many times he must tell events whereof he can yield no cause; or if he ...

— A Defence of Poesie and Poems • Philip Sidney

... that he desired to comprehend all things, and not to reserve himself for the worthiest things, falling into the like humour that was long before noted in Philip of Macedon, who, when he would needs overrule and put down an excellent musician in an argument touching music, was well answered by him again—"God forbid, sir," saith he, "that your fortune should be so bad as to know these things better than I." It pleased God likewise ...

— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon

... conjecture? Our late experience has taught us that many of those fundamental principles, formerly believed infallible, are either not of the importance they were imagined to be, or that we have not at all adverted to some other far more important and far more powerful principles, which entirely overrule those we had considered as omnipotent. I am much against any further experiments which tend to put to the proof any more of these allowed opinions which contribute so much to the public tranquillity. In effect we suffer as much at home by this loosening ...

— Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America • Edmund Burke

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