CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

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CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning) , a substantive (whence the verb) for that which checks or regulates anything, and so especially command of

body

BODY

or mind by the will, and generally the

power

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

of regulation. In England the "Board of

Control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in
English
- ENGLISH
of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

," abolished in 1858, was the

body

BODY

which supervised the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

India

Company

COMPANY

in the administration of India. In the

case

CASE
CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

of " controller," a general

term

TERM

for a public official who checks expenditure, the more usual form " comptroller " is a 'wrong spelling due to a false connexion with " accompt " or "

account

." A "

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in
English
- ENGLISH
of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

" or " control-experiment," in science, is an experiment used, by an application of the method of difference, to check the inferences

drawn

DRAWN

from another experiment.

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