Overruling
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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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.
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His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.
--Clarendon.
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These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled.
--F. W.
Newman.
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3. (Law) To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as,
the plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "overruling":
absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, all-absorbing, arbitrary, arch,
aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic,
banner, bossy, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief,
controlling, crowning, despotic, dictatorial, dominant,
domineering, feudal, first, focal, foremost, great, grinding,
headmost, hegemonic, high-handed, highest, imperative, imperial,
imperious, leading, lordly, magisterial, magistral, main, master,
masterful, monocratic, oppressive, overbearing, overriding,
paramount, peremptory, pivotal, predominant, preeminent, premier,
preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal,
ranking, repressive, ruling, severe, sovereign, star, stellar,
strict, supereminent, suppressive, supreme, topflight, topmost,
tyrannical, tyrannous, uppermost
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