outrule

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ rule.

Verb

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outrule (third-person singular simple present outrules, present participle outruling, simple past and past participle outruled)

  1. (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 []
  2. (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 []

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