[see -ING2.] That controls; formerly † censorious, overbearing.
Controlling experiment: see CONTROL sb. 3 b. Controlling nozzle: one by which the volume of the stream issuing from it can be regulated.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 330. Which deserved well lyking, and not controlling contempt.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., V. i. 103. Controlling Lawes.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 689. There was no controlling authority.
Hence Controllingly adv.
1650. B., Discolliminium, 2. Which makes him write with such a Turky-cocks quill, too controulingly and censoriously.
1886–7. G. O. Fay, in Proc. Amer. Soc. Instruct. Deaf, 224. To mingle socially, controllingly, with the children.
