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ons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay. Board of control. See under Board.

tatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.

] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.

ebate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.

itude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.

influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay.

legal decision, or by one's conscience. He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury. Macaulay. They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. John viii. 9.

e state of being so attended; protection; escort. To obtain the convoy of a man-of-war. Macaulay.

grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame. Macaulay.

An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.

Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

ce a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.

To drive into a position of great difficaulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.

use a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord. Macaulay.

A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

the defendant has able counsel. The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges. Macaulay.

Num. xxiii. 10. In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins. Macaulay.

e other part. "Counter irritants are of as great use in moral as in physical diseases." Macaulay. -- Counter irritation (Med.), the act or the result of applying a counter irritant. -- Counter opening, an aperture or vent on the opposite side, or in a different place. -Counter parole (Mil.), a word in addition to the…

and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals. Macaulay.