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  • noun Plural form of controul.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of controul.

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Examples

  • Jinn usually made synonymous with “Márid,” evil controuls, hostile to men: modern spiritualists would regard them as polluted souls not yet purged of their malignity.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Yet nobody controuls you, nor implies to controul you.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Some one passion predominating in every human breast, breaks through principle, and controuls us all.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Not that there is any thing disagreeable about his person, but there is a total want of that nameless charm which captivates and controuls the inchanted spirit at least, he appears to me to have this defect; but if he had all the engaging qualifications which a man can possess, they would be excited in vain against that constancy, which, I flatter myself, is the characteristic of my nature.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • If the thunders were heard to roll awfully, and the fearful lightnings were seen to flash along the black sky, they spoke to Chepiasquit, who uttered a short prayer to Him who controuls the elements as well as man, and all became hushed and still; the black clouds passed away, and the bright stars looked out from their places of rest in the clear blue sky.

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

  • This is what our Rev. Pantheist calls one of Spiritualism's 'splendid arguments,' and splendidly absurd it certainly is; quite equal, considered as a provocative of mirth, to Robert Owen's sublimest effusions about that very mysterious and thoroughly incomprehensible power which 'directs the atom and controuls the aggregate of nature.'

    An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

  • What is dominion, if it is not possessed alone? and what is power, which the dread of rival power perpetually controuls?

    Almoran and Hamet John Hawkesworth

  • That outer circle of causation, which, leaving each individual will entirely free, so controuls without coercing, so overrules without occasioning, the actions of men, -- that all things shall work together for good in the end, and the great designs of God's Providence find free accomplishment; -- all this, far, far transcends your and my powers of comprehension.

    Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews." 1813-1888 1861

  • Also a tribe of the Jinn usually made synonymous with "Márid," evil controuls, hostile to men: modern spiritualists would regard them as polluted souls not yet purged of their malignity.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Their only controuls are their manners, and that moral sense of right and wrong, which, like the sense of tasting and feeling, in every man makes a part of his nature.

    Notes on the State of Virginia. 1826

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