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CONTROL'LER, f One that has the power of go¬ 
verning or retraining ; a fuperintendent: 
Tlie great controller of our fate 
Deign’d to be man, and liv’d in low eftate. Dryden. 
We have divers officers of this name in England: as 
controller of the king’s houfehold, of the navy, of the 
cuftoms, of the excile, of the mint, See. And in our 
courts, there is the controller ol the hamper, of the 
pipe, and of the pell. The office ol controller ol the 
houfehold, is to control the accounts of the green cloth ; 
and he fits with the lord Iteward and other officers in the 
counting-houfe, for daily taking the accounts of all ex- 
pences of the houfehold. The controller of the navy 
controls the payment of wages, examines and audits ac¬ 
counts, and enquires into rates of fiores for {hipping, &c. 
Controllers of the cuftoms and excife, their office is to 
control the accounts of thofe revenues. And the con¬ 
troller of the mint, controls the payment ol wages, and 
accounts relating to the fame. Controller ol the hamper 
is an officer in the chancery attending the lord chancellor 
daily in term-time, and upon feal-days; whofe office it 
is to take all things fealed from the clerk ol the hamper, 
inclofed in bags of leather, and to note the juft number 
and effeft of all things fo received, and enter the lame 
in a book, with all the duties appertaining to the king. 
The controller of the pipe is an officer of the exchequer, 
who writes out fummons twice every year to the flrerifts 
to levy the farms and debts ol the pipe ; and keeps a 
controlnrent of the pipes, See. Controller ol the pell is 
alfo an officer of the exchequer ; of which fort there are 
two, who are the chamberlain’s clerks, thsCt do or lhould 
keep a controlment of the pell, of receipts and goings 
out: and this officer was originally fuch as took notes of 
other officers’ accounts or receipts, to the intent to dilco- 
ver if-they dealt amifs, and was ordained for the prince’s 
better fccurity. Flcta, lib. i. c. 18. 12 Edzu.lll- c.3. lhislaft 
feems to be the original ufe and defign of all controllers. 
CONTROL'LERSHIP, / The office of a controller. 
CONTROL'MENT,/. The power or aft ofSuperin¬ 
tending or reftraining. The ftate of being reftrained; re- 
ftraint.—’They made war and peace with one another, 
without controlment. Davies ..—Oppofition ; confutation.— 
Were it reafon that we ffiould fuffer the fame to pafs 
without controlment , in that current meaning, whereby 
every where it prevaileth. Hooke-r. —'Refiftance; hoftility : 
Here have we war for w r ar, and blood for blood, 
Controlment for controlment. Shakefpeare. 
CON'TROVERSE,/. [Fr.] Contention: 
So fitly now here commeth next in place, 
After the proofe of proweife ended well, 
The controverfe of beauties foveraine grace. Spenfer. 
CONTROVERSIAL, adj. Relating to difputes; de¬ 
putations.—It happens in controverfial difeourfes as it does 
in the affaulting of towns, where, if the ground be but 
firm whereon the batteries are erefted, there is no farther 
enquiry whom it belongs to, fo it affords but a fit rife 
for the prefent purpofe. Locke. 
-CON'TROVERSY, f. [controvctfa , Lat.] Difpute ; 
debate; agitation of contrary opinions: a difpute is com¬ 
monly oral, and a controversy in writing.—Without con¬ 
troversy great is the myftery of godlinefs. 1 Timothy. —A 
fuit in law.—If there be a controverfy between men, and 
they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge 
them, then they fhall juftify the righteous and condemn 
the wicked. Deut. xxv. 1.—A quarrel.'—The Lord hath 
a controverfy with the nations. Jcr. xxv. 31.—Oppolition; 
enmity. This is an unufualfenfe : 
The torrent roar’d, and we did buffet it 
With iufty finews ; throwing it afide, 
And Hemming it with hearts of controverfy. Shakefpeare. 
To CON'TROVERT, v. a. [controverto , Lat.] To de¬ 
bate ; to ventilate in oppofite books -, to difpute any. 
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thing in writing.—If any perfon fiiall think fit to contro¬ 
vert them, he may do it very fafely for me. Cheyne .— 
Hooker feems to ufe the word controverfe , if it be not an 
erratum.—Perfuafion ought to be fully fettled in men’s 
hearts, that in litigations and controverjcd caufes of fuch 
quality, the will of God is to have them to do whatfo*. 
ever tire fentence of judicial and final decifion fiiall de¬ 
termine. Hooker. 
CON'TROVERTER, f A controverfial writer.— 
Some controvcrtcrs in divinity are like fwaggerers in a 
tavern that catch that which Hands next to them, the 
candleftick, or pots; turn every thing into a weapon. 
Ben Jot fori. 
CONTROVER'TIBLE, adj. Difputable ; that may 
be the caufe of controverfy.—Drfcourfingof matters du¬ 
bious, and many controvertible truths, we cannot without 
arrogancy intreat a credulity, or implore any farther af 
fent than the probability of our reafons and verity of our 
experiments. Brown. 
CONTROVER'TIST, f. Difputant; a man verfed 
or engaged in literary wars or deputations.•—Who can 
think himfelf fo confiderable as not to dread this mighty 
mtm of demonfiration, this prince of controverdfls , this 
great lord and polfeffor of firft principles ? Tillofon. 
CONTUMA'CIOUS, adj. fontumax, Lat.] Obftinate; 
perverle ; ftubborn ; inflexible.—He is in law faid to be 
a contumacious perfon, who, on his appearance afterwards, 
departs the court without leave .' Ay life. 
CONTUMA'CIOUSLY, adj. Obftinately; ftubborn- 
ly; inflexibly; perverfely. 
CONTUMA'CIOUSNESS, /. Obftinacy; perverfe- 
nefs; inflexibility; ftubbornnefs.-—From the defeription 
I have given orfit, a judgment may be given of the dif¬ 
ficulty and contumiteiovf/iejs of cure. Wifeman. 
CON'TUMACY, f. [from contumacia, Lat.] Obfii- 
nacy ; perverfenefs; ftubbornnefs; inflexibility ; 
Such afts 
Of contumacy will provoke the Higheft 
To make death in us live. Milton. 
A wilful contempt and difobedience. to any lawful fum¬ 
mons or judicial order. Aylijfe. 
CONTUME'LIOUS, adj. [ contumcliofus , Lat.] Re¬ 
proachful ; rude ; farcaftic ; contemptuous.—In all the 
quarrels and tumults at Rome, though the people fre¬ 
quently proceeded to rude contumelious language, yet no 
blood was ever drawn in any popular commotions, till 
the time of the Gracchi. Swift. 
Vfith.feoffs and fcorns, and contumelious taunts. 
In open market-place produc’d they me 
To be a public Ipeftacle. •„ Shakefpeare . 
Inclined to utter reproach, or praftife infults; brutal ; 
rude.—'There is yet another fort of contumelious perfons, 
who indeed are not chargeable with that circumftance of 
ill employing their wit; for they ufe none of it. Govern¬ 
ment of the Tongue. 
Giving our holy virgins.to the ftain 
Of contumelious, beaftiy, madbrain’d, war. Shakefpeare. 
Produftlve of reproach; ftiameful; ignominious.—As it 
is in the higheft degree injurious to them, fo it is con¬ 
tumelious to him. Decay of Piety. 
CONTUME'LIOUSLY, adv. Reproachfully; con- 
temptuoufly; rudely.—The people are not wont to take 
fo great offence, when they are excluded from honours 
and offices, as when their perfons are contumelioufy trodden 
upon. Hooker. 
Fie, lords! that you, being fupreme magiftrates, 
Thus contumelioufy fliould break the peace. Shakefpeare. 
CONTUME'LIOUSNESS, f Ruder.efs; reproach. 
CON'TUMELY, J. \_contumdia, Lat.] Rudenefs; con- 
temptuoufnefs; bitternefs of language; reproach.—Eter¬ 
nal. contumely attend that guilty title, which claims ex- 
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