Contrive
(Con*trive"), v. i. To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
The Fates with traitors do contrive.
Shak.
Thou hast contrived against th very life
Of the defendant.
Shak.
Contrivement
(Con*trive"ment) n. Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [Obs.]
Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric.
Glanvill.
Active to meet their contrivements.
Sir G. Buck.
Contriver
(Con*triv"er) n. One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
Control
(Con*trol") n. [F. contrôle a counter register, contr. fr. contr- rôle; contre (L. contra) + rôle 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.
Control
(Con*trol"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Controlled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Controlling.] [F. contrôler, fr. contrôle.]
[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.
Controllability
(Con*trol`la*bil"i*ty) n. Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
Controllable
(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.
Controllableness
(Con*trol"la*ble*ness), n. Capability of being controlled.
Controller
(Con*trol"ler) n. [From control, v. t.: cf. F. contrôleur.]
