the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Control
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;
(2):
(n.) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
(3):
(n.) the mechanism controlling the rudders and ailerons.
(4):
(n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
(5):
(v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
(6):
(v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
(7):
(n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
(8):
(n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Control'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/control.html. 1828.
