Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric.
Glanvill.
Active to meet their contrivements.
Sir G. Buck.
Con*triv"er (?), n. One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
Con*trol" (?), n. [F. contr˘le a counter register, contr. fr. contr- r˘le; contre (L. contra) + r˘le roll, catalogue. See Counter and Roll, and cf. Counterroll.] 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. "Speak without control." Dryden.
3. Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration.
Macaulay.
Board of control. See under Board.
Con*trol", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Controlled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Controlling.] [F. contr˘ler, fr. contr˘le.] [Formerly written comptrol and controul.] 1. To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute. [Obs.]
This report was controlled to be false.
Fuller.
2. 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.
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.