overrulerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

overruler (plural overrulers)

1. Someone or something thay controls, governs, or determines.
   • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:

     But necessity, the only overruler of affections, did force her then gently to unfold herself from those sweet embracements

2. Someone who overrules.

参照

• “overruler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.