CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older

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• FORM (Lat. forma)

form contre rolle, from Med.

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• LAT

Lat. contra-rotulus, a

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• COUNTER

counter

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• ROLL (O. Fr. rolle, roulle, mod. role, Lat. rotulus, dim. of rota, wheel)
• ROLL, ALFRED PHILIPPE (1846– )

roll or copy of a document used to check the

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• ORIGINAL

original; there is no instance in

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• ENGLISH

English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)  , a substantive (whence the verb) for that which checks or regulates anything, and so especially command of body or mind by the will, and generally the power of regulation . In England the "Board of Control," abolished in 1858, was the body which supervised the East India Company in the administration of India . In the case of " controller," a general term for a public official who checks expenditure, the more usual form " comptroller " is a 'wrong spelling due to a false connexion with " accompt " or " account." A " control " or " control-experiment," in science, is an experiment used, by an application of the method of difference, to check the inferences drawn from another experiment .