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verb

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

... which men, through stepping-stones of their dead selves rise to higher things; or those steps of Alciphron, which crumbled away into nothingness as fast as each foot-fall left them." Thus our very failures we may overrule and convert into stepping-stones to success. Lifted to a loftier sphere, to a nobler experience, we are apt to receive greater benefit than though we escaped disappointment and rejoiced ...

— A Fleece of Gold - Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece • Charles Stewart Given

... this dear woman, "I constantly prayed that God would overrule this to his own glory, and not allow those I had taught to read his Word to suffer, as we had been threatened. I can not tell you how my heart leaped with praise to God when a gentleman called to me one day on the street, and said he would inform me that I could ...

— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland

... this council in his speech used in this house tending to any of the forenamed services? Whether the speaker may rise when he will, any matter being propounded, without consent of the house or not? Whether the speaker may overrule the house in any matter or cause there in question, or whether he is to be ruled or overruled in any matter or not? Whether the prince and state can continue, and stand, and be maintained, without this council of parliament, not altering ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

... 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 ...

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

... President to give way before such constraint would be to lose the veto power and to destroy the independence of the executive as a branch of the government. The Democrats were unable to muster force enough to overrule the veto, and here the matter rested while other forces, which have already been described, were sapping the strength of the election laws. On the whole, the result was probably to bring the Republican factions ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

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