1. CONTROL, CONTROLL noun
2. Primarily, a book, register or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter-register. Hence, check; restraint; as, to speak, or to act without control. The wind
raged without control. Our passions should be under the control or reason.
3. Power; authority; government; command. Children should be under the control of their parents. The events of life are not always under our control.
4. He or that which restrains.
Controll
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To keep under check by a counter-register or double account. The proper officer controls the accounts of the treasury.
2. To check; to restrain; to
govern.
3. I feel my virtue struggling in my soul; But stronger passion does its power control.
4. To overpower; to subject to authority; to
counteract; to have under command. The course of events cannot be
controlled by human wisdom or power.
5. To direct or
govern in opposition; to have superior force, or authority over.
6. A
recital cannot control the plain words in the granting part of a deed.
1. That may be
controlled, checked or restrained; subject to command.
2. Passion is the
drunkenness of the mind, and not always controllable by reason.
Controlled
[Participle passive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Checked; restrained; governed.
1. One who controls, or restrains; one that has the power or authority to
govern or control.
2. The great controller of our fate deignd to be man, and lived in low estate.
3. An officer appointed to keep a counter-register of accounts, or to oversee, control or
verify the accounts of other officers; as in Great Britain, the controller of the
hanaper, of the household, of the pipe, and of the pells. In the United States, the duty of the controller of the treasury is to
superintend the
adjustment and preservation of the public accounts; to examine all accounts settled by the
auditor, and
certify to the register the balances due
thereon; to
countersign all warrants drawn by the secretary of the treasury which shall be warranted by law; to report to he secretary the official forms of all papers to be issued in the different offices for collecting the public revenue, and the manner and form of keeping and stating the accounts of the persons employed in them, etc.
1. One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
2. An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine,
rectify, or
verify accounts.
3. An iron block, usually
bolted to a ship's deck, for
controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
