Part 528

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. Dryden.

Syn. -- To restrain; rule; govern; manage; guide; regulate; hinder; direct; check; curb; counteract; subdue.

Con*trol`la*bil"i*ty (?), n. Capability of being controlled; controllableness.

Con*trol"la*ble (?), a. Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.

Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.

Con*trol"la*ble*ness, n. Capability of being controlled.

Con*trol"ler (?), n. [From control, v. t.: cf. F. contr˘leur.] 1. One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.

The great controller of our fate Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. Dryden.

2. An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. [More commonly written controller.]

3. (Naut.) 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.

Con*trol"ler*ship, n. The office of a controller.

Con*trol"ment (?), n. 1. The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.

You may do it without controlment. Shak.

2. Opposition; resistance; hostility. [Obs.]

Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, Controlment for controlment. Shak.

Con`tro*ver"sal (?), a. 1. Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.]

The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

2. Controversial. [Obs.] Boyle.

Con`tro*ver"sa*ry (?), a. Controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Con"tro*verse (?), n. [Cf. F. controverse.] Controversy. [Obs.] Spenser.

Con"tro*verse, v. t. [L. controversari, fr. controversus turned against, disputed.] To dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] "Controversed causes." Hooker.

Con"tro*ver`ser (?), n. A disputant. [Obs.]

Con`tro*ver"sial (?), a. [Cf. LL. controversialis.] Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.

Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.

Con`tro*ver"sial*ist, n. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.

Con`tro*ver"sial*ly, adv. In a controversial manner.