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<i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Control</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trol"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>contr\'93le</ets> a counter register, contr. fr. <ets>contr-r\'93le</ets>; <ets>contre</ets> (L. <ets>contra</ets>) + <ets>r\'93le</ets> roll, catalogue. See <er>Counter</er> and <er>Roll</er>, and cf. <er>Counterroll</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.</def> "Speak without <i>control</i>."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; <as>as, children should be under parental <ex>control</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>The House of Commons should exercise a <b>control</b> over all the departments of the executive administration. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Board of control</col>. <cd>See under <er>Board</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Control</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trol"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Controlled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Controlling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>contr\'93ler</ets>, fr. <ets>contr\'93le</ets>.]</ety> <altsp>[Formerly written <asp>comptrol</asp> and <asp>controul</asp>.]</altsp> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>This report was <b>controlled</b> to be false. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.</def>

<blockquote>Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a scepter to <b>control</b> the world. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I feel my virtue struggling in my soul: But stronger passion does its power <b>control</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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

<h1>Controllability</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trol`la*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Capability of being controlled; controllableness.</def>

<h1>Controllable</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trol"la*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.</def>

<blockquote>Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always <b>controllable</b> by reason. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Controllableness</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trol"la*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Capability of being controlled.</def>

<h1>Controller</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trol"ler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>control</ets>, v.t.: cf. F. <ets>contr\'93leur</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.</def>

<blockquote>The great <b>controller</b> of our fate Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.</def> <altsp>[More commonly written <asp>controller</asp>.]</altsp>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>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.</def>