Primarily, a book, register or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter-register. Hence, check; restraint; as, to speak, or to act without control. The wind raged without control. Our passions should be under the control or reason.

Power; authority; government; command. Children should be under the control of their parents. The events of life are not always under our control.

He or that which restrains.

To keep under check by a counter-register or double account. The proper officer controls the accounts of the treasury.

To check; to restrain; to govern. I feel my virtue struggling in my soul; But stronger passion does its power control.

To overpower; to subject to authority; to counteract; to have under command. The course of events cannot be controlled by human wisdom or power.

To direct or govern in opposition; to have superior force, or authority over. A recital cannot control the plain words in the granting part of a deed.