overmaster

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It was a welcome reminder that even in the rankly toxic House of Representatives, sometimes the personal transcends the ideological and that civility and empathy can overmaster appearances.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2012

If one idea occupies the mind all them more for being great and just, it will be likely to overmaster that mind, so as not to be produced in its fair proportions, or rightly applied.

From The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society by Withington, William

For a moment I felt the anger at his treachery almost overmaster me.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

Her form was shaken with emotion so strong as to almost overmaster her.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.

The backward drag rapidly decreased as the pull of Saturn and his system began to overmaster that of Jupiter.

From A Honeymoon in Space by Griffith, George Chetwynd