English-Thai Dictionary

overrule

VT ลบล้าง  ปฏิเสธ  overturn override accept lob-lang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OVERRULE

v.t. 1. To influence or control by predominant power; to subject to superior authority. The law must overrule all private opinions of right and wrong.
His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.
2. To govern with high authority.
3. In law, to supersede or reject; as, the plea was overruled by the court.

 

OVERRULER

n.One who controls, directs or governs.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 )

 

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

 

OVERRULE

OVERRULE O `ver *rule ", v. i.

 

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

 

OVERRULER

OVERRULER O `ver *rul "er, n.

 

Defn: One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines. Sir P. Sidney.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

overrule

o ver rule |ˌōvərˈro͞ol ˈˌoʊvərˈrul | ▶verb [ with obj. ] reject or disallow by exercising one's superior authority: the Supreme Court overruled the lower court. • reject the decision or argument of (someone ): he was overruled by his senior managers.

 

Oxford Dictionary

overrule

over |rule |əʊvəˈruːl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] reject or disallow by exercising one's superior authority: Chief Judge Moran overruled the government's objections. • reject the decision or opinion of: welfare staff overruled an experienced detective.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

overrule

overrule verb this ban was overruled by a federal court: countermand, cancel, reverse, rescind, repeal, revoke, retract, disallow, override, veto, quash, overturn, overthrow, annul, nullify, invalidate, negate, void; Law vacate; formal abrogate; archaic recall.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

overrule

overrule verb this ban was overruled by a federal court: countermand, cancel, reverse, rescind, repeal, revoke, retract, withdraw, take back, rule against, disallow, override, veto, set aside, quash, overturn, overthrow, repudiate, recant, annul, nullify, declare null and void, invalidate, negate, void, abrogate; Law vacate; archaic recall. ANTONYMS allow, accept.