overrulev.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈruːl/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvə(r)ˈrul/

Forms: see over- prefix and rule v.; also 1600s overuld (past participle).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, rule v.

Etymology: < over- prefix + rule v. Compare to rule over (see rule v. 3c).

1. transitive. To rule over; to have absolute authority over. Also occasionally intransitive: to have overall authority. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule or govern [verb (transitive)]

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hold971

wieldOE

warda1000

redeOE

wisc1000

i-weldeOE

rightlecheOE

rightOE

raima1325

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rulea1387

justicec1390

rekea1400

reigna1413

lorda1450

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seignoryc1475

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overrulec1488

emperyc1503

gubern?a1505

signorize1594

sway1613

gubernate1623

overlead1720

belord1858

prime minister1906

c1488 E. Brews in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 457 I thank you hertely for my son William Brews, and I moste pray you for þe reuerens of Jesu to help hym for youre tenauntes and myne, or els John Dynne will owuere-rewle them.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 839 It is so necessary a thing, that one onely man, ouer rule the whole Church.

1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xx. 25 You know that the princes of the Gentiles ouerrule them.

1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) iv. xx. 53/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Petie officers to ouersee and ouerrule the people.

a1627 A. Craig Pilgrime & Heremite (1631) l. 328 A fell Frowne..had a full force To over-rule the whole Worlde, with Eterne Might.

1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. xvii. 180 Those Presbyters must have an head, that head is to overrule the body.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 228 Th' Eternal King Omnipotent From his strong hold of Heav'n high over-rul'd And limited thir might.

1731 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 255 He by no Tears is mov'd;..Fate forbids; And Jove, o'er-ruling, stops his pitying Ears.

1990 A. A. Burn Penguin Hist. Greece (BNC) 227 It remains true that the ways of the gods, who overrule men's lives, are inscrutable.

2. transitive. To control, modify, or override the rule of (a person, a law, etc.), through superior power or authority.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [verb (transitive)] > prevail over by superior authority

overrule1576

overtop1584

predominate1590

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monarch1600

predominize1648

to have the whip hand (of)1680

predominec1721

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. C.iij^v Realmes and townes..Where mighty power, doth ouer rule the right.

1596 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 229 To overrule them in their prices, so as the same be not sold at any dearer rates.

1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 85 Yet did he not onely not seeke to ouer-rule the law, but became a law to himselfe.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 194 There is a secret order and concatenation of things directed and overruled by Providence.

1816 E. S. Barrett Talents run Mad 41 At length the tyro, scorning to be school'd, Himself set up, but found his rod o'errul'd.

1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury I. ii. 43 Shaping all things to his own wise ends, and overruling the actions of men.

1996 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 23/3 Some 18,000 EU directives and regulations, which bypass and overrule Parliament.

3. transitive. Of a thing: to prevail over, overcome, outweigh; to dominate, swamp.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > power > influence > have influence [verb (intransitive)] > have greater influence

overrule1578

preponder1599

overweigh1647

overbalance1659

preponderate1659

preside1718

1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. i. viii. sig. H.ij If loue or hate from Iustice leade the Iudge, Then money sure may ouerrule the case.

1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia 180 Which humour perceiving to over-rule me, I strave against it.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §31. 27 How speedily and effectually this Pill in few hours doth over-rule the disease, and in a little time doth cure them.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 78 The violent Vibrations soon over-rule the natural Vibrations.

1796 W. Dunlap Archers ii. iii. 43 Thou let'st thy passion over-rule thy judgment: which is not well in men of note.

1857 F. W. Faber Sir Lancelot (ed. 2) v. 124 The wolf's low whine, prolonged and multiplied, Possessed the ear of night and over-ruled All other sounds.

1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xlvii The general causes that overrule personal aims.

1925 A. Strachey & J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Uncanny in Coll. Papers IV. 391 We are able to postulate in the unconscious mind a principle powerful enough to overrule the pleasure principle.

4. To rule against, set aside, esp. by virtue of superior authority; spec. in Law.

a. transitive. To reject or rule against (an argument, objection, etc.); to disallow (an action).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject

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to set one's foot down1873

not to have any (of it, that, this)1895

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neg1987

1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. iii. ii. sig. Kii^v Thy Offycers are couetous I finde, By whose reportes, thou ouer rulest sutes.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 67 Sutes in Lawe ouer-ruled by Letters from aboue.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 52 This Plea, which you have spoken of, it ought to be over-ruled, and not to stand good.

a1691 P. Ventris Rep. (1696) i. 261 In this case the Court overruled the Wager of Law.

1733 E. Phillips Stage-mutineers i. 13 Pist. He gives us the old Plea, that of Conscience. Com. But we must overrule that Plea; it is as irregular in this Court of Judicature, as those of Westminster.

1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers lxxvi. 281 But his nomination may be overruled.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 629 Schomberg..when his opinion was overruled, retired to his tent in no very good humour.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 140 (note) The chancellor overruled the objections.

1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 17/6 An objection to Kippit Lore on behalf of Ferry Maid was overruled.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 68/1 If the point of order is overruled by the presiding officer, the speaker resumes the floor.

b. transitive. To annul or pronounce invalid; to reject as an authoritative precedent (a previous action or decision) .

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity > deny the validity of

quash?a1400

disable1548

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overrule1611

null1656

to set aside1765

to strike down1894

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 6 Therefore he [sc. Clement VIII] ouerruleth and frustrateth the grant of Pius the fourth.

1887 Dict. National Biogr. at Cowper, William, first Earl Cowper The House of Peers having overruled a judgment of the queen's bench to the effect that no such action lay.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 830/2 Although the second of these was afterwards overruled, the principle upon which it was originally rested was not shaken.

1986 N. Browne-Wilkinson Judgment 10 Dec. in Law Rep: Queen's Bench (1988) 55 We are bound by the ratio decidendi in the Island Records case..unless it has been overruled by the House of Lords.

1992 New Republic 18 May 7/2 Justice Kennedy suggested disingenuously that abandoning Roe's ‘strict scrutiny’ test wouldn't be the same as overruling Roe.

c. transitive. To overturn or annul the ruling or decision of (a person); to disallow or set aside the arguments, protests, or pleas of.

ΚΠ

1651 Faithful Scout No. 38. 295 The Commissioners took the matter into consideration, and after a long and serious debate, they agreed to over-rule him in his Plea.

1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant 122 You wil needs over-rule the Apostle.

1788 T. Jefferson Let. 4 Dec. in Papers (1958) XIV. 330 The people or tiers etat shall have no greater number of deputies than each of the other orders separately..: so that two orders concurring in a vote, the third will be overruled.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 19 Sir John Ernley..insisted that the delay should not exceed forty-eight hours: but he was overruled.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxii. 344 I wanted to follow the road till we were abreast of them, but the others overruled me.

1926 E. Bowen Ann Lee's 262 Some one collected the little man and took him away quietly—in the confusion he protested, but was overruled.

1990 Amer. Accent I. iv. 60 He argued that the tanks would make the ceremonies too grim and warlike, but the General called him a wimp and overruled him.

2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Sports section) 16/5 In the face of vociferous Villa protests the Danish referee bravely overruled a flagging linesman.

5. transitive. To persuade to a different opinion, win over; to prevail over in spite of an opposing opinion. Also intransitive: to win a person over. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon

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to prevail upon1656

to gain upon1790

convince1958

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. ii. 50 When a World of men Could not preuayle with all their Oratorie, Yet hath a Womans kindnesse ouer-rul'd.

1622 F. Annesley in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 184 I was overruled by most voyces to subscribe therunto, eaven against my will.

1694 E. Gibson in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 222 If a good reward could over-rule the Doctor.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 25 I over-rul'd him in that part.

a1817 J. Austen Lady Susan xxvii, in Wks. (1954) VI. 296 It was at first her intention that Frederica should accompany her for the benefit of Masters, but we over-ruled her there.

1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxi. 86 I found myself led and influenced by another's will, unconsulted, unpersuaded, quietly over-ruled.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	overrule
释义	overrulev. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈruːl/, U.S. /ˌoʊvə(r)ˈrul/ Forms: see over- prefix and rule v.; also 1600s overuld (past participle). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, rule v. Etymology: < over- prefix + rule v. Compare to rule over (see rule v. 3c). 1. transitive. To rule over; to have absolute authority over. Also occasionally intransitive: to have overall authority. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or govern [verb (transitive)] steera900 hold971 wieldOE warda1000 redeOE wisc1000 i-weldeOE rightlecheOE rightOE raima1325 governc1325 guyc1330 rulea1387 justicec1390 rekea1400 reigna1413 lorda1450 earlc1450 seignoryc1475 over-govern1485 overrulec1488 emperyc1503 gubern?a1505 signorize1594 sway1613 gubernate1623 overlead1720 belord1858 prime minister1906 c1488 E. Brews in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 457 I thank you hertely for my son William Brews, and I moste pray you for þe reuerens of Jesu to help hym for youre tenauntes and myne, or els John Dynne will owuere-rewle them. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 839 It is so necessary a thing, that one onely man, ouer rule the whole Church. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xx. 25 You know that the princes of the Gentiles ouerrule them. 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) iv. xx. 53/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Petie officers to ouersee and ouerrule the people. a1627 A. Craig Pilgrime & Heremite (1631) l. 328 A fell Frowne..had a full force To over-rule the whole Worlde, with Eterne Might. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. xvii. 180 Those Presbyters must have an head, that head is to overrule the body. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 228 Th' Eternal King Omnipotent From his strong hold of Heav'n high over-rul'd And limited thir might. View more context for this quotation 1731 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 255 He by no Tears is mov'd;..Fate forbids; And Jove, o'er-ruling, stops his pitying Ears. 1990 A. A. Burn Penguin Hist. Greece (BNC) 227 It remains true that the ways of the gods, who overrule men's lives, are inscrutable. 2. transitive. To control, modify, or override the rule of (a person, a law, etc.), through superior power or authority. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (transitive)] > prevail over by superior authority overrule1576 overtop1584 predominate1590 oversway1593 monarch1600 predominize1648 to have the whip hand (of)1680 predominec1721 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. C.iij^v Realmes and townes..Where mighty power, doth ouer rule the right. 1596 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 229 To overrule them in their prices, so as the same be not sold at any dearer rates. 1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 85 Yet did he not onely not seeke to ouer-rule the law, but became a law to himselfe. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 194 There is a secret order and concatenation of things directed and overruled by Providence. 1816 E. S. Barrett Talents run Mad 41 At length the tyro, scorning to be school'd, Himself set up, but found his rod o'errul'd. 1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury I. ii. 43 Shaping all things to his own wise ends, and overruling the actions of men. 1996 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 23/3 Some 18,000 EU directives and regulations, which bypass and overrule Parliament. 3. transitive. Of a thing: to prevail over, overcome, outweigh; to dominate, swamp. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > have influence [verb (intransitive)] > have greater influence overrule1578 preponder1599 overweigh1647 overbalance1659 preponderate1659 preside1718 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. i. viii. sig. H.ij If loue or hate from Iustice leade the Iudge, Then money sure may ouerrule the case. 1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia 180 Which humour perceiving to over-rule me, I strave against it. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §31. 27 How speedily and effectually this Pill in few hours doth over-rule the disease, and in a little time doth cure them. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 78 The violent Vibrations soon over-rule the natural Vibrations. 1796 W. Dunlap Archers ii. iii. 43 Thou let'st thy passion over-rule thy judgment: which is not well in men of note. 1857 F. W. Faber Sir Lancelot (ed. 2) v. 124 The wolf's low whine, prolonged and multiplied, Possessed the ear of night and over-ruled All other sounds. 1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xlvii The general causes that overrule personal aims. 1925 A. Strachey & J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Uncanny in Coll. Papers IV. 391 We are able to postulate in the unconscious mind a principle powerful enough to overrule the pleasure principle. 4. To rule against, set aside, esp. by virtue of superior authority; spec. in Law. a. transitive. To reject or rule against (an argument, objection, etc.); to disallow (an action). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject awarpc1000 forwerpeOE warpc1000 nillOE warnc1300 reprovec1350 to put abacka1382 to throw awaya1382 repugnc1384 to put awaya1387 waivec1386 forshoota1400 disavowc1400 defyc1405 disprovec1430 repelc1443 flemea1450 to put backa1500 reject?1504 refutea1513 repulse1533 refel1548 repudiate1548 disallowa1555 project?1567 expel1575 discard1578 overrule1578 forsay1579 check1601 decard1605 dismiss1608 reprobate1609 devow1610 retorta1616 disclaimc1626 noforsootha1644 respuate1657 reluctate1668 negative1778 no-ball1862 basket1867 to set one's foot down1873 not to have any (of it, that, this)1895 to put down1944 eighty-six1959 neg1987 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. iii. ii. sig. Kii^v Thy Offycers are couetous I finde, By whose reportes, thou ouer rulest sutes. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 67 Sutes in Lawe ouer-ruled by Letters from aboue. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 52 This Plea, which you have spoken of, it ought to be over-ruled, and not to stand good. a1691 P. Ventris Rep. (1696) i. 261 In this case the Court overruled the Wager of Law. 1733 E. Phillips Stage-mutineers i. 13 Pist. He gives us the old Plea, that of Conscience. Com. But we must overrule that Plea; it is as irregular in this Court of Judicature, as those of Westminster. 1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers lxxvi. 281 But his nomination may be overruled. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 629 Schomberg..when his opinion was overruled, retired to his tent in no very good humour. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 140 (note) The chancellor overruled the objections. 1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 17/6 An objection to Kippit Lore on behalf of Ferry Maid was overruled. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 68/1 If the point of order is overruled by the presiding officer, the speaker resumes the floor. b. transitive. To annul or pronounce invalid; to reject as an authoritative precedent (a previous action or decision) . ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity > deny the validity of quash?a1400 disable1548 infirm1558 overrule1611 null1656 to set aside1765 to strike down1894 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 6 Therefore he [sc. Clement VIII] ouerruleth and frustrateth the grant of Pius the fourth. 1887 Dict. National Biogr. at Cowper, William, first Earl Cowper The House of Peers having overruled a judgment of the queen's bench to the effect that no such action lay. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 830/2 Although the second of these was afterwards overruled, the principle upon which it was originally rested was not shaken. 1986 N. Browne-Wilkinson Judgment 10 Dec. in Law Rep: Queen's Bench (1988) 55 We are bound by the ratio decidendi in the Island Records case..unless it has been overruled by the House of Lords. 1992 New Republic 18 May 7/2 Justice Kennedy suggested disingenuously that abandoning Roe's ‘strict scrutiny’ test wouldn't be the same as overruling Roe. c. transitive. To overturn or annul the ruling or decision of (a person); to disallow or set aside the arguments, protests, or pleas of. ΚΠ 1651 Faithful Scout No. 38. 295 The Commissioners took the matter into consideration, and after a long and serious debate, they agreed to over-rule him in his Plea. 1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant 122 You wil needs over-rule the Apostle. 1788 T. Jefferson Let. 4 Dec. in Papers (1958) XIV. 330 The people or tiers etat shall have no greater number of deputies than each of the other orders separately..: so that two orders concurring in a vote, the third will be overruled. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 19 Sir John Ernley..insisted that the delay should not exceed forty-eight hours: but he was overruled. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxii. 344 I wanted to follow the road till we were abreast of them, but the others overruled me. 1926 E. Bowen Ann Lee's 262 Some one collected the little man and took him away quietly—in the confusion he protested, but was overruled. 1990 Amer. Accent I. iv. 60 He argued that the tanks would make the ceremonies too grim and warlike, but the General called him a wimp and overruled him. 2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Sports section) 16/5 In the face of vociferous Villa protests the Danish referee bravely overruled a flagging linesman. 5. transitive. To persuade to a different opinion, win over; to prevail over in spite of an opposing opinion. Also intransitive: to win a person over. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon wina1340 persuadec1450 to prevail withc1450 prevail1466 train1549 overswaya1586 oppugn1596 overrulea1616 reach1637 to prevail upon1656 to gain upon1790 convince1958 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. ii. 50 When a World of men Could not preuayle with all their Oratorie, Yet hath a Womans kindnesse ouer-rul'd. View more context for this quotation 1622 F. Annesley in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 184 I was overruled by most voyces to subscribe therunto, eaven against my will. 1694 E. Gibson in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 222 If a good reward could over-rule the Doctor. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 25 I over-rul'd him in that part. a1817 J. Austen Lady Susan xxvii, in Wks. 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