OVERRULE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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.
v.

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

4.
v.

To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules. Shak.

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