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scepter
[ sep-ter ]
noun
- a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty.
verb (used with object)
- to give a scepter to; invest with authority.
Other Words From
- scepter·less adjective
- scep·tral [sep, -tr, uh, l], adjective
- un·sceptered adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The crown and scepter will be costuming, allowing him to uphold the illusion that the monarchy still has a role to play in a modern constitutional republic.
He portrays Merkel holding a Euro-topped scepter as she sits on a throne adorned with an EU emblem-inspired clock.
Offering the scepter to an ex-President Obama is one option, writes Geoffrey Robertson.
“Katy has a status,” he says, pointing to a painting of Perry wielding a candy-cane scepter.
In that relationship, the lower-class king of his dingy domain is enthroned atop a commode and uses a toilet brush as a scepter.
On the throne sat an old132 magician, with a crown on his ugly head and a scepter in his hand.
Certainly he was not a man of sufficient ability worthily to hold the scepter of so great an empire.
The god was represented as seated on his throne, with his brows crowned with a wreath of olive and in his hand a scepter.
In the right hand there is a scepter terminating in a sign which has been thought to represent fire.
The present-day detective king wields his scepter for precisely the same reason.
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