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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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... people,) as undoubtedly sinking fast. He hurried to her chamber, and saw that it was so. The presiding medical authority, however, was inexorable. 'Oh, by no means,' shaking his ambrosial wig, 'any stimulant at this crisis would be fatal.' But no authority could overrule the concurrent testimony of all symptoms, and of all unprofessional opinions. By some pious falsehood my friend smuggled the doctor out of the room, and immediately smuggled a glass of brandy into the poor lady's lips. She recovered with magical power. The doctor is now ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... hoping, with such authority, to overthrow all opposition. Accordingly, next morning, when her nephew was about to undergo his diurnal baptism, she produced the commission, whereby she conceived herself empowered to overrule such inhuman proceedings, but she was disappointed in her expectation, confident as it was; not that Mrs. Pickle pretended to differ in opinion from Dr. Colocynth, "for whose character and sentiments," said she, "I have such veneration, that I shall carefully observe the caution implied in this very ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... to be dead while he was hidden in the sepulchre, whereas he was alive, demon- 44:30 strating within the narrow tomb the power of Spirit to overrule mortal, material sense. There were rock-ribbed walls in the way, and a great 45:1 stone must be rolled from the cave's mouth; but Jesus vanquished every material obstacle, overcame every law 45:3 of matter, and stepped forth from his gloomy resting-place, crowned ...

— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... well-known inaccuracies in matters of detail and for his royal disregard of chronological order—faults for which it is manifestly absurd to blame him over-severely—it would be unwise lightly to disregard or overrule his testimony with regard to matters which he may have learned from the lips of Titian himself ...

— The Later works of Titian • Claude Phillips

... I do Desire by this plan of Vere's? What good might I not do her? Was it mere slavishness of mind on my part not to overrule her timid will? She must pardon me when she realized my desperate case. A dying man might be excused for some roughness of haste, surely. Whether flight could save us I did not know. I did know absolutely that my enemy had crossed the Barrier last night, and ...

— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram

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