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overrule
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Word definitions for overrule in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overrule \O`ver*rule"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overruled ; p. pr. & vb. n. 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority. 2 (context transitive English) # To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter. 3 (context transitive English) To nullify a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rule against; set aside, as by a higher authority," 1590s, from over- + rule (v.). It was used earlier in a sense "to govern, control" (1570s). Related: Overruled ; overruling .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill" [syn: overturn , override , overthrow , reverse ]
Usage examples of overrule.
The gallant and unfortunate earl of Surrey might probably have escaped his unmerited fate, had not his demand of the combat against his accuser been overruled.
Unless I am overruled, I say we continue to show as long as we have a single artiste capable of performing, and a single josser paying admission to see that performance.
Liberal affection for stare decisis was not much in evidence when they were overruling all those cases dealing with habeas corpus and criminal confessions in the first place.
Several months after Griles signed his recusal agreement, he wrote a memo to Linda Fisher, EPA deputy administrator, demanding that she overrule her Denver employees.
Bass, as anxious as he was to get to Aquarius, knew Tuit was overruling him.
It seemed to Clark that Barnett bar bar might be on the verge of overruling the moderates and returning to bar bar be the TV studio to issue a call to arms.
How the justices who later dissented could have brought themselves to join this per curiam opinion defies understandingunless they, too, were playing a game, trying to prevent a result with which they disagreed by forestalling the possibility that the Court would have to overrule the state court.
I had a momentary impulse to go back and help him that my fears overruled.
But he had foolishly thought her excitement, her unrelentingly curious scientific mind, her Frankensteinian lust for exploring the unknown, would overrule her female nature.
I objected on the grounds that it was prejudicial to play the audio recording when the transcript would suffice but the judge quickly overruled me before Minton even had to counter.
Third, they so miscited past precedents, and wrenched them so out of their historical context, as to make a mockery out of the rule of precedent and the requirement that if past precedent is to be overruled, the Court must provide honest and persuasive reasons for breaking with the past.
State of New York in their quality as highways of interstate and foreign transportation are held to be governed by the overruling power of Congress.
It is not denied that there may be cases in which a respect to the general principles of liberty, the essential rights of the people, or the overruling sentiments of humanity, might require a government, whether new or old, to be treated as an illegitimate despotism.
Justice spoke for the Court as in the Slocum Case, it was held that a trial court had the right to enter a judgment on the verdict of the jury for the plaintiff after overruling a motion by defendant for dismissal on the ground of insufficient evidence.
Whatever occurs, we should have Faith in the Justice and overruling Wisdom of God, and Hope for the Future, and Loving-kindness for those who are in error.