[f. CONTROL v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CONTROL; restraint, domination; † calling in question. (Now chiefly gerundial.)

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1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccxiii. 264. The great lordes … vysited the ladies and damusels without any controllynge.

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1534.  More, On the Passion, Wks. 1291/1. [To] vse their owne iudgement in thallowing or in the controllynge of any part of hys context.

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1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxvi. 139. Consequently to controule their controulings.

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1874.  Green, Short Hist., vi. § 1. 265. The right of granting and controlling subsidies.

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