overriden.
/ˈəʊvərʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈoʊvə(r)ˌraɪd/ 1. Business. More fully override commission. = overriding commission n. at overriding adj. Compounds.The definition referred to in quot. 1934 reads: ‘Overwrite 4. To agree to pay or to pay to (a general agent, jobber, etc.) a commission (overwrite) on sales made by a subordinate agent, local salesman, etc.’ This use of overwrite as noun and verb does not appear in Webster's Third New Internat. Dict. (1961); it may have arisen by confusion, perhaps influenced by the co-occurrence of override with underwrite (cf. quot. 1930 for overriding commission n. at overriding adj. Compounds).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > commission > types of
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override1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Override, v.t. & n. Com[merce] = overwrite v.t., 4 & n.
1973 Telegraph (Brisbane) 18 July 9/3 (advt.) This is not a pyramid operation, however we do pay 9% overrides at retail level to Managers.
1986 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 21 Sept. 7/1 (advt.) Unit Organisers receive excellent override commissions on their Consultants' Sales plus very generous commissions on their personal sales.
1993 J. Kay Found. Corporate Success v. xvii. 268 The producer may give incentives to promote his goods at the expense of others, by means that range from the payment of override commissions to the provision of promotional materials.
2. The action or process of causing an automatic function to be suspended, esp. in favour of manual control; (also) a device enabling this.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > action of or device to suspend automatic operation
override1946
1946 Aircraft Engin. 18 112/1 A manual over-ride for landing operation would be necessary.
1949 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) ii. 11 Boost control override, a device to override the boost control so that a pressure higher than the normal controlled pressure can be obtained.
1957 Pract. Wireless 33 697/1 The only connections yet to be made are those coupling up the override switch to the appropriate part in the circuit.
1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 203/1 Mechanical overrides are provided should any of the automatic equipment fail.
1986 D. Carey Dreadnought i. 12 Implement override. Emergency.
3. Originally and chiefly North American. An act of or facility for overruling, superseding, or cancelling a decision, authority, opinion, etc.
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1975 Business Week (Nexis) 24 Mar. 33 If it gets to an override, that will be less certain.
1978 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 36 There had been only two successful overrides of a governor's veto in all the years since Earl Warren.
1991 U.S. News & World Rep. 27 May 26/2 I think the chances are good for an override if President Bush tries to say this is a ‘quota’ bill.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
overridev.
/ˌəʊvəˈrʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvə(r)ˈraɪd/ I. Senses relating to physical movement.
1.
a. transitive. To ride over or across (land, etc.); to cross by riding. Also figurative. Chiefly poetic in later use.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > traverse on horseback
overrideeOE
rideOE
perequitate1780
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xii. 196 Geaf he & sealde þæt betste hors..ðæt he hwæðre on þæm meahte fordas oferridan, þonne he to hwelcere ea cwome.
c1300 St. Leonard (Laud) 58 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 458 Ne kepe ich..nouȝht more of þe i-bide Bote þat ich may in one niȝte with min Asse ouer-ride.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 47 When þey come to ryueres or oþer watres þat hadde no brugges ne alsomyȝt nouȝt be ouerswomme ne ouerride, þan wiþ þilke ropes and chaynes þey frette þilke bootys to gidre..and þereon þey caryed ouer þe wateres þe oost.
c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 118 (MED) And when he had ouerryden the contrey and clensed itt of the mysbelevers, he founde myche people and the londe wele belabored, both of vynes and of corne.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. xi. 295 Now is the ebb, and till the ocean-flow We cannot over-ride the rocks.
1825 H. W. Longfellow Spirit of Poetry 9 When the fast ushering star of morning comes O'er-riding the gray hills with golden scarf.
1868 C. Lofft Ernest (ed. 2) iv. 64 That ship..bears up, Stemming the surging breakers, boldly ahead, And overrides each billow, like war-steeds.
1928 H. Lamb Genghis Khan xvi. 152 Have you never heard..that a band of men..overrode the earth to the Caspian Gates, carrying destruction.
1935 M. Rukeyser U.S. 1 in Coll. Poems (1978) 133 I dream of a boat riding on towery waves overriding blond pebbles, grating on stone.
b. transitive. To ride all over (a country or region), esp. with an armed force, so as to exert authority, crush opposition, etc.; to harry, plunder. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > invade [verb (transitive)] > overrun or harry
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 4147 I wol þat reaume ouer-ride & rediliche destrue.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 16396 (MED) The contre distroyed hit was & ouer-ryden in eche a plas.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 231 He hath bene rebell unto Rome and overredyn muche of hir londis.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 471 Thai durst nocht ȝeit tak on hand Till our-ride the land planly.
c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 144 They counseiled the kynge to tary not, but to ouir-ride his reaume.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 200 That he destroyes on ilkane syde Hir lands, and with ane hoste ouer ryde.
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 54 Still we knights the countrie ouer rode, Whereby ech thing waxed exceeding scant.
1859 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. July 1857–Mar. 1859 177 In pastoral language, the wind was said to ‘o'erride it [sc. the land]’, so as to leave ‘no solid beild’.
1915 S. Phillips Armageddon i. 36 To desecrate all that is dear, O'erride your hearts, make ashes of your Faith!
1981 A. C. Rich Wild Patience has Taken (1984) 306 This poor, conquered, bulldozed desert overridden like a hold-out enemy village.
2. transitive. To ride over (a person); to knock down and trample under the hooves of one's horse. Now rare.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > trample down by riding
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c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 9091 (MED) Þai were ouerriden in a þrawe.
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2022 The cartere ouerryden [v.r. ouyr redyn] with his carte Vnder the wheel ful lowe he lay adoun.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 18 (MED) Bituex vndernon & noen was þe feld alle wonnen, For alle þat wild abide were ouer riden & ronnen.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 22919 So sore astoned kyng Ryown was..þat non power he hadde to rysen jn þat plas. And Nasciens hym ouerrod [Fr. sen vait outre le cors] twyes or thrye, as he on horsbak sat ful egerlye.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 530 Than foote-hote sir Palomydes cam uppon sir Trystram as he was uppon foote to have overryddyn hym.
a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) 1216 (MED) Mony renke þat he ouer-rade rase neuer aftir.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 45 The lord Gray with the bairdit horss..ordaynit to have ourriden the wangaird of the Scottis.
c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 89 Thay ran upoun thayme, overrayd thayme, slew, hurt, and tuik a number of thayme preasoners.
1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 73 'Twas my unhappy fortune once to over-ride a youth!
1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags II. vii. 180 They had darted head-long all abreast down out of the town overriding all that came in their way.
a1903 W. P. Merrick in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 391/1 [W. Midlands] Them there bicycles goes along so quiet that they pretty near overrides you afore you knows they're a comin.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. IV. xiv. 83 [He] would have slain his foe: but in that point, Fresh troop of Gaulish horse him overrode!
3. transitive. To catch up with or overtake while riding; to ride faster than, outride.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > overtake by riding
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a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 88 (MED) He þat is behinde may ouerrenne or ouerryde [L. superuenire] by disseyte or gile him þat is bifore.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) xii. 548 For thar fayis..on stedis..Come prikand as thai wald our rid The erle and all his cumpany.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iv. sig. I.iijv Askanius..somtyme these, and sometyme those, wt swift course ouerrydes.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 30 My lord, I ouer-rode him on the way. View more context for this quotation
1607 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (new ed.) xlvi. 400 He chaseth oft the Buck, the Hart and Roe, And by his horse swift pace, doth ouer-ride them.
1642 Lanc. Tracts (Chetham Soc.) 64 We over-rode our Foote being carried with a fervent desire to overtake the enemie.
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xvi. 122 Such a one may now and then get among the hounds or override the hunt, but it is not often so.
a1875 C. Kingsley Poems (1889) 283 Who can over-ride you? Let the horses go!
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xi. 207 There's the Hunt coming this way... Lost the hounds, perhaps... But they may have over-ridden them.
1986 Bicycling Mar. 30/2 When you see that you are beginning to over-ride the wheel in front, ease your pedalling pressure for a few strokes.
4. transitive. To ride (a horse, etc.) too hard or too long; to exhaust (an animal) by excessive riding. Also (Fox-hunting): to exhaust (a hound) through too much hunting. Also intransitive.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > exhaust (a horse) by excessive riding
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1609 R. Armin Ital. Taylor ii. l. 35 Had I before done so, I had not thus bin backt and rid, By him Ile ouer ride.
c1621 in J. P. Hore Hist. Newmarket (1885) I. 355 These gentlemen's horses..being over~rid, past their strength and breath.
1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. cx. 313 Your own Beast being over ridden by another, becomes unfit for your Service.
1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare IV. 417 It is common to give horses over-ridden or feverish..a mash.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 255 If a lent horse has been over-ridden, it is commonly remarked, ‘He played smoke with that horse’.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) xxi. 273 He discovered that there was no other stage available without over-riding Osmund.
1917 S. Sassoon Old Huntsman 5 Hounds were short of blood; and officers From barracks over-rode 'em all day long On weedy, whistling nags.
1990 G. H. Morris Hunter Seat Equitation (ed. 3) iii. vii. 125 A rider who overpunishes and overrides I label a ‘butcher’.
5. transitive. To extend or pass over; to lie over or be superimposed on, overlap; (Medicine, of a bone) to overlap another bone as a result of fracture.In quot. 1864 intransitive: to overlap one another.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > affect with bone disorder [verb (transitive)] > of a fracture: overlap
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1847 H. Miller Test. Rocks (1857) vi. 214 It overrode by a squamose suture the lower plates with which it came in contact.
1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene i. xiii. 363 Tight and ill-made boots, by which the toes are often distorted and made to override.
1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 218 The parlour..retains its ancient ceiling of molded beams over-riding the intrusive partitions.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. V. xviii. 110 He dwells..in his new house; which overrides The path; that needs must enter all which pass.
1977 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 279 455 Post-mortem compression has forced the lacrimal to override the prefrontal and nasal bones.
1991 M. A. Summerfield Global Geomorphol. (BNC) iv. 90 These areas of continental lithosphere are thought to have overridden regions of hot asthenosphere associated with former mid-oceanic spreading ridges.
II. Extended uses.
6.
a. transitive. To assume or exercise authority over, esp. arrogantly or contemptuously; to intervene in so as to negate or make ineffective; to reject or cancel (a decision, view, etc.) by reason of superior authority; to bypass.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > refuse to submit to [verb (transitive)] > set aside authority
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c1565 T. Palmer Emblems: 200 Poosees (1988) 150 Se that mighte orerid not righte.
1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 59 Euill custome ouerrideth ouerruneth and ouerreacheth both disposition and temperance.
1689 Irish Hudibras 131 Of Promise-making-Kings the best, Till over-ridden by the Priest.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vi. 376 The unconstitutional and usurped authority of this odious tribunal [sc. the Star-chamber] overrode every personal right.
1857 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1858) I. xxi. 76 Such difficulties..occur only where men are not wise, or where the wise are over-ridden.
1889 Polit. Sci. Q. 4 232 The old restrictions on colored voters..continued in force until they were overridden by the fifteenth amendment to the national constitution.
1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxvii. 264 You must promise..that you will not say, ‘Please, please,’ too often; for when you do you are sure to override my authority.
1973 K. Lines Greek Legends 116 No decrees issued by you, a mere man, can override the law of the gods.
1991 Independent 12 Nov. 21/4 Management is frequently in a position to override controls which it has itself set up.
b. transitive. To prevail over, dominate; to outweigh, outnumber. Also intransitive.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > be great in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > be greater than in quantity, amount, or degree
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1762 J. Smeaton Reports (1812) I. 43 Was the down-fall waters of Wadworth Carr..let down, so as to communicate with the drains of Potterick Carr, the former would over-ride.
1841 J. C. Calhoun Speech 30 Jan. in Wks. (Papers) (1983) XV. 481 The Constitution must override the deeds of cession,..whenever they come in conflict.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling i. 29 Owing to these..causes, they [sc. dace] soon considerably outnumber and override the trout.
1932 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 100 116 There is a significant difference between the amounts of theelin needed to blot out the normal progestational picture as compared to the amount it takes to over-ride a rabbit unit of injected corporin.
1970 Wykehamist 21 Mar. 447/1 Whatever the supposed range of activities.., the demands of the major games usually over-ride all others.
1993 V. E. Mitchell Windows on Lost World xviii. 210 The mating drive overrode all other concerns.
7. transitive. To cause the operation of (a mechanism, system, etc.) to be suspended, esp. in favour of manual control.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > cease from temporarily [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease temporarily > the automatic operation of
override1949
1949 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) ii. 11 A device to override the boost control so that a pressure higher than the normal controlled pressure can be obtained.
1971 Daily Tel. 20 Oct. 2/2 It has four forward gears and reverse controlled by a speed-sensing governor which can be overridden by the driver using a gear lever.
1990 Which Video? Mar. 23/2 It is possible to override the system and make a standard VHS recording on an S-VHS tape.
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