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English
Noun
controul (countable and uncountable, plural controuls)
- Obsolete form of control.
1749, Henry Fielding, “An extraordinary Scene between Sophia and her Aunt”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book XVII, page 114:[…] whole Herds or Flocks of other Women ſecurely, and ſcarce regarded, traverſe the Park, the Play, the Opera, and the Aſſembly; and though, for the moſt Part at leaſt, they are at laſt devoured, yet for a long Time do they wanton in Liberty, without Diſturbance or Controul.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 73:As the Knight himself seemed tacitly to disclaim alike interest and controul over the immediate favourite of his lady, young Roland was, by circumstances, exempted from the strict discipline to which, as the retainer of a Scottish man of rank, he would otherwise have been subjected, according to all the rigour of the age.
Verb
controul (third-person singular simple present controuls, present participle controulling or controuling, simple past and past participle controulled or controuled)
- Obsolete form of control.
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