outrule
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editoutrule (third-person singular simple present outrules, present participle outruling, simple past and past participle outruled)
- (transitive) To rule out; to eliminate by deduction.
- 1968, Irish Journal of Medical Science, page 309:
- The possibility of remote Mediterranean ancestry cannot be outruled in the family investigated in the present study, though the pedigree was traced back to 1850 without evidence […]
- (transitive) To rule or reign longer or better than.
- 2004, Alison Booth, How to Make It as a Woman:
- Among those that I do not feature, Queen Elizabeth and Isabella of Castile outruled male monarchs […]