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▪ I. controlling, vbl. n.|kənˈtrəʊlɪŋ|
[f. control v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb control; restraint, domination; † calling in question. (Now chiefly gerundial.)
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxiii. 264 The great lordes..vysited the ladies and damusels without any controllynge. 1534More On the Passion Wks. 1291/1 [To] vse their owne iudgement in thallowing or in the controllynge of any part of hys context. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 139 Consequently to controule their controulings. 1874Green Short Hist. vi. §1. 265 The right of granting and controlling subsidies.
▪ II. conˈtrolling, ppl. a.
[see -ing2.]
That controls; formerly † censorius, overbearing.
controlling experiment: see control n. 3 b. controlling nozzle: one by which the volume of the stream issuing from it can be regulated.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 330 Which deserved well lyking, and not controlling contempt. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 103 Controlling Lawes. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 689 There was no controlling authority.
Hence conˈtrollingly adv.
1650B. Discolliminium 2 Which makes him write with such a Turky-cocks quill, too controulingly and censoriously. 1886–7G. O. Fay in Proc. Amer. Soc. Instruct. Deaf 224 To mingle socially, controllingly, with the children. |