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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

... next house is burning." An employer said to his hands, "You try to get all you can out of me; and I try to get all I can out of you." But this will never do. The man who has any sympathy in him cannot allow such considerations to overrule his better nature. He must see the brighter side of humanity ever turned towards him. "Always to think the worst," said Lord Bolingbroke, "I have ever found the mark of a mean spirit and ...

— Thrift • Samuel Smiles

... or they'd have had her up before the justices for her black doings. And it's the law of the land that witches should be burnt! Ay, and of Scripture, too, sir! Yet you see a papist, if he's a rich squire, can overrule both law and Scripture. I'd carry a fagot myself to rid ...

— Curious, if True - Strange Tales • Elizabeth Gaskell

... from the capital and keep them at their posts. He was stern to savagery in his enforcement of military law. The wearied sentinel who slept at his post found no mercy in the heart of Stanton, and many times did Lincoln's humanity overrule his fiery minister. ...

— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure

... reason to believe that the worthy lady did neither write nor countenance the same, perhaps did not ever know of them. She always had at her elbow one who jogged it when he listed, and although he could not overrule the daughter, he took especial care that none other should remove her from his tutelage, even when she had fairly ...

— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor

... thing relating to this matter is too deep for us. Deity had no embarrassment. To omniscience all was easy and obvious. The great Supreme needed only to sit at helm, superintend and overrule the lulls of apostate creatures, to effect the purposes of his grace! Need only to permit man freely to follow his own inclinations! "The wrath of man would thus be made to praise God;" and the designs of mercy be accomplished! The greatest good be occasioned ...

— Sermons on Various Important Subjects • Andrew Lee

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