Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
control .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
control .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
control . - verb Alternative form of
control .
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Examples
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She is the author of a variety of articles published in legal journals, of a book on state comptrol (An Interpretation of the Basic Law: State Comptroller, 1998 [2005]), and a commentary on the law of assignment.
Miriam Ben-Porat. 2009
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By the English possessing it, Canada itself would be so streightened, so liable to harrassment, and especially to the comptrol of its navigation, that it would scarce be tenable, and surely not worth the expence of keeping.
An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton Antoine Simon Maillard 1736
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