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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overrule
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overrule/overturn a decision (=officially change a decision by another person or group)
▪ A director of the company had overruled that decision.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
court
▪ The Court of Appeal overruled the decision on the facts, but not this interpretation of the general law.
▪ Only eight years later, in Garcia, the Court overruled National League.
▪ The Court thus refrained from overruling the decision of the President or censuring the conduct of the political parties.
▪ The state Court of Criminal Appeals overruled the hearing, however, declaring that Brown had overstepped his authority.
decision
▪ The Court of Appeal overruled the decision on the facts, but not this interpretation of the general law.
▪ It took three constitutional amendments after the Civil War to overrule his decision.
▪ The Court thus refrained from overruling the decision of the President or censuring the conduct of the political parties.
▪ A company executive turned her down for the letter, but miraculously, the director of the company overruled that decision.
▪ Their lordships overruled earlier decisions saying otherwise.
▪ A pragmatist judge might possibly decide, in such a case, to overrule these past decisions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A general commanding American troops on the battlefield found himself overruled by politicians back in Washington.
▪ After seeing new evidence the judge overruled the court's original decision.
▪ The Supreme Court overruled the lower court's decision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he may not have the power to overrule the precedents; in any case, reasons of strategy argue against this.
▪ Even so, the conventions of the group inevitably overrule the preferences of individual members.
▪ It took three constitutional amendments after the Civil War to overrule his decision.
▪ The Court of Appeal overruled the decision on the facts, but not this interpretation of the general law.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overrule

Overrule \O`ver*rule"\, v. i. To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules.
--Shak.

Overrule

Overrule \O`ver*rule"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overruled; p. pr. & vb. n. Overruling.]

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

  2. 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.
    --Clarendon.

    These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled.
    --F. W. Newman.

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overrule

"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.

Wiktionary
overrule

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 previous ruling by a higher power. 4 (context transitive legal English) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.

WordNet
overrule

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.