The Collaborative International Dictionary
Control \Con*trol"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Controlled; p. pr. & vb. n. Controlling.] [F. contr[^o]ler, fr. contr[^o]le.]
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To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute. [Obs.]
This report was controlled to be false.
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To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a scepter to control the world.
--Shak.I feel my virtue struggling in my soul: But stronger passion does its power control.
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to assure the validity of an experimental procedure by using a control[7].
Syn: To restrain; rule; govern; manage; guide; regulate; hinder; direct; check; curb; counteract; subdue.
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n. (archaic spelling of control English) vb. (obsolete form of control English)
Usage examples of "controul".
I know indeed that you pretend authority to the sovereign controul of our conduct in all its parts: & a respect for your grave saws & maxims, a desire to do what is right, has sometimes induced me to conform to your counsels.
But there is sometimes an eminence of character on which society have such peculiar claims as to controul the predelection of the individual for a particular walk of happiness, & restrain him to that alone arising from the present & future benedictions of mankind.
And such men maysafely and advantageously reserve to themselves a wholsome controul over their public affairs, and a degree of freedom, which in the hands of the Canaille of the cities of Europe, would be instantly perverted to the demolition and destruction of every thing public and private.
Her imagination refused any longer the controul of reason, and, turning her eyes, a figure, whose exact form she could not distinguish, appeared to pass along an obscure part of the chamber: a dreadful chillness came over her, and she sat fixed in her chair.
He advised therefore the call of an assembly of the most distinguished characters of the nation, in the hope that by promises of various and valuable improvements in the organization and regimen of the government, they would be induced to authorize new taxes, to controul the opposition of the parliament, and to raise the annual revenue to the level of expenditures.
My father's impulses, never under his own controul, perpetually led him into difficulties from which his ingenuity alone could extricate him.
That great and infallible rule of faith and practice which must controul all philosophy and human reasoning, has left us in this particular to our natural liberty.
An observation, which would certainly be just, were there not many other circumstances in human society which controul the genius and character of a religion.