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Meanings of sceptered in English

Invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter.

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Examples for "empowered"
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However, they have since been empowered by a ruling earlier this year.
The South African
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The 2010 Dodd-Frank law empowered it with tools to address emerging concerns.
Reuters
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Do you feel empowered? he goes on to ask in the video.
Ebony
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The Marine-Hospital Service should be empowered to study leprosy in the islands.
State of the Union Addresses
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Finally, private sector organisations would be empowered to deliver testing in workplaces.
The Guardian
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Once more he held sceptred sway over races long since in oblivion.
AE in the Irish Theosophist
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Men will not kneel to sceptred slaves, nor freemen fight for tyrants' tools.
The Days of Bruce: A Story from Scottish History. Vol. 1
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Caligula was both, sceptred at that; and with what a sceptre!
Imperial Purple
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I have crowned and sceptred him, and right royally he rules!
St. Elmo
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This sceptred misanthrope possessed it, and it was in that his wife was blessed.
Imperial Purple
Usage of sceptered in English
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There wasn't a knight in either team who wasn't a sceptered sovereign.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Every one is robed, sceptered, and crowned, and every one wears the purple of authority.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I / Including His Answe...
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The dead but sceptered sovereigns who still rule
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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Choosing a mere 10 is a challenge, but here are some delightful eyebrow-raisers of the sceptered isle.
BBC
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Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptered hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
The American Union Speaker
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Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality.
Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4
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But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
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The "sceptered isle" is still in a sense their mother-country, and a thousand ancestral ties attract them to its shores.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
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A world record "club" crowd of 82,300 for a local shindig on our sceptered little isle.
The Irish Times
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The times demanded men who would not quail in the presence of the sceptered monarch; or at his threats of imprisonment, banishment and death.
Sketches of the Covenanters
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In the companion panel, "Seedtime," the waiting farmers attend her as she stands, sceptered with an Easter lily, and extends her benison on the land.
The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition / A Pictor...
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Sceptered kings, and jeweled princesses trailing robes of satin were the chief actors in her dreams.
A Daughter of the Middle Border
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All on earth your scepter claim; all in heaven above adore you.
Radio NZ
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I take into my hand the scepter of the kingdom of Amber.
The Great Book of Amber
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He has no scepter in his hand, no crown upon his head.
King of the Jews: A story of Christ's last days on Earth
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The present-day detective king wields his scepter for precisely the same reason.
The Substitute Prisoner
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