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Meanings of sceptred in English

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

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Usage of sceptred in English
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Once more he held sceptred sway over races long since in oblivion.
AE in the Irish Theosophist
2
Men will not kneel to sceptred slaves, nor freemen fight for tyrants' tools.
The Days of Bruce: A Story from Scottish History. Vol. 1
3
Caligula was both, sceptred at that; and with what a sceptre!
Imperial Purple
4
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
6
There are many who wish to wreak havoc upon this sceptred isle, Captain Harkness.
Consequences
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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by.
The Duel Between France and Germany
8
So much in the sceptred isle, public services in particular, appears rather less than rosy.
The Guardian
9
Their voice is heard above Herodias' strains of revelry and even sceptred Sadducees tremble at the sound.
St. Cuthbert's
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To submit to this crowned and sceptred Christ; to reject for ever the other-thismeant relief and sanity.
The Dawn of All
11
Pontiff and priest, and sceptred throng?
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The ceremonial perambulations in the sceptred sector of our isle could be said to have their roots in meteorology.
The Irish Times
13
The colossal angels at Assisi, solemn sceptred kingly forms, all alike in action and attitude, appeared to me magnificent.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
14
He is one of those "dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 / A Maga...
15
He spake and led the way, and the sceptred kings accompanied him, while the henchmen went for the divine minstrel.
The Odyssey of Homer
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This great office had twice been ably filled by women, women as aptly fitted for it as some of the sceptred queens of history.
The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches
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