Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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COMPTROLL, from Latin , To count or compute, and a register. If this word were of genuine origin, both the verb and its derivative, as applied to a public officer, would not be sense. But there is no such legitimate word in English, nor in any other known language. [See Control.]
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