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Webster 1828 Edition
Controll
CONTROL
, CONTROLL,Noun.
1.
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.2.
Power; authority; government; command. Children should be under the control of their parents. The events of life are not always under our control.3.
He or that which restrains.CONTROL
, CONTROLL,Verb.
T.
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.I feel my virtue struggling in my soul; But stronger passion does its power control.
3.
To overpower; to subject to authority; to counteract; to have under command. The course of events cannot be controlled by human wisdom or power.4.
To direct or govern in opposition; to have superior force, or authority over.A recital cannot control the plain words in the granting part of a deed.