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sceptred, ppl. a.|ˈsɛptəd|
Also 6 cepturyt, 7– sceptered.
[f. sceptre v. + -ed1.]
Bearing a sceptre; invested with regal authority. sceptred unite = sceptre n. 3.
1513Douglas æneis xi. vi. 25 Thys ancyent kyng dyd set hym dovn amyd The cepturyt men, as first and principall. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 193 But mercy is aboue this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings. 1632Milton Penseroso 98 Som time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Scepter'd Pall com sweeping by. 1667― P.L. ii. 43 And next him Moloc, Scepter'd King Stood up. 1754Gray Progr. Poesy 20 Perching on the scept'red hand Of Jove. 1806Landor Rose Aylmer, Ah, what avails the sceptred race? 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xli, For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den. 1817R. Ruding Ann. Coinage II. 221 Scotland, where the Scepter'd Unit..still continued to be coined as before. 1894Boyd Carpenter The Son of Man ii. 36 We see beneath the sceptred symbols of earthly power an unexpected feebleness. |