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/sˈɛptər/ /skˈɛptər/ Listen

noun

Sceptre, Scepter n.

A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace. "And the king held out Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand."

Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter. "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come."

verb

Sceptre, Scepter v. t. (past & past part. sceptered or sceptred; pres. part. sceptering or sceptring) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority. "To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends."

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Etymology of 'Sceptre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sceptre" Quotes from Famous Books

... instruments, To work its purposes. Let envy hide Her witless forehead at a prince's name, And fix her hopes upon a clown's content. You, happy lowly, know not what it is To groan beneath the crowned yoke of state, And bear the goadings of the sceptre. Ah! Fate drives us onward in a narrow way, Despite ...

— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker

... unmistakably English in features, though strongly suggestive of the Boadicea. She was a large, heavily-boned woman, enormously covered with flesh, and she dandled across her knees that very unfeminine sceptre, an English cavalryman's sword. But the eye neglected these details, and was irresistibly drawn by the strongness of her face. Even Kettle was almost ...

— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... Whose name is one for ever with the name Of England, rose; and in her face the gleam Of justice that makes anger terrible Shone, and she stretched her glittering sceptre forth And spoke, with distant empires ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... at the children's feet Each his kingly crown, Each, the conquering power to greet, Laying humbly down. Sword and sceptre as is meet." ...

— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

... King has sceptre, crown and ball. You are my sceptre, crown and all, For all his robes of royal silk. More fair your skin, as white as milk. And it's O! sweet, ...

— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

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