CONTROLLED
CONTROLLED, participle passive Checked; restrained; governed.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CONTROLLED, participle passive Checked; restrained; governed.
CONTROLLER, noun1. One who controls, or restrains; one that has the power or authority to govern or control.The great controller of our fate deignd to be man, and lived in low e...
CONTROLLERSHIP, noun The office of a controller.
CONTROLMENT, CONTROLLMENT, n.1. The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint.2. Opposition; resistance; counteraction; refutation.For this ...
CONTROLMENT, CONTROLLMENT, noun1. The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint.2. Opposition; resistance; counteraction; refutation.For thi...
CONTROVERSE, noun and v. Controversy, and to dispute.
CONTROVERSER, CONTROVERSOR, noun A disputant.
CONTROVERSIAL, adjective [See Controvert, Controversy.] Relating to disputes; as a controversial discourse.
CONTROVERSIALIST, noun One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
CONTROVERSER, CONTROVERSOR noun A disputant.
CONTROVERSY, noun [Latin See Controvert.]1. Dispute; debate; agitation of contrary opinions. A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Dispute is often or genera...
CONTROVERT, verb transitive [Latin, to turn. Literally, to turn against.] To dispute; to oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to deny and attempt to dis...
CONTROVERTED, participle passive Disputed; opposed in debate.
CONTROVERTER, noun One who controverts; a controversial writer.
CONTROVERTIBLE, adjective That may be disputed; disputable; not too evident to exclude difference of opinion; as, this is a controvertible point of law.
CONTROVERTING, participle passive Disputing; denying and attempting to refute.
CONTROVERTIST, noun One who controverts; a disputant; a man versed or engaged in controversy, or disputation.How unfriendly is the spirit of the controvertist to the discernment...
CONTUMACIOUS, adjective [Latin, to swell.]1. Literally, swelling against; haughty. Hence, obstinate; perverse; stubborn; inflexible; unyielding; disobedient; as a contumacious c...
CONTUMACIOUSLY, adverb Obstinately; stubbornly; perversely; in disobedience of orders.
CONTUMACIOUSNESS, noun Obstinacy; perverseness; stubbornness; contumacy.
CONTUMACY, noun [Latin]1. Stubbornness; unyielding obstinacy; inflexibility.2. In law, a wilful contempt and disobedience to any lawful summons or order of court; a refusal to a...
CONTUMELIOUS, adjective [Latin See Contumely.]1. Haughtily reproachful; contemptuous; insolent; rude and sarcastic; as contumelious language.2. Haughty and contemptuous; dispose...
CONTUMELIOUSLY, adverb In a contumelious manner; with pride and contempt; reproachfully; rudely; insolently.
CONTUMELIOUSNESS, noun Reproach; rudeness; contempt.
CONTUMELY, noun [Latin, to swell.] Rudeness or reproach compounded of haughtiness and contempt; contemptuousness; insolence; contemptuous language.The oppressors wrong; the prou...
CONTUND, verb transitive [Latin] To beat; to bruise by beating. [Little used.]
CONTUSE, verb transitive [Latin] To beat; to bruise; to injure the flesh or substance of a living being or other thing without breaking the skin or substance, sometimes with a b...