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Having royal authority
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sceptred
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: sceptre )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter [syn: empowered , sceptered ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scepter \Scep"ter\, Sceptre \Scep"tre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sceptered or Sceptred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sceptering or Sceptring .] To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority. To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant ...
Usage examples of sceptred.
The sceptred wretch then from that solitude I drew, and, of his change compassionate, With words of sadness soothed his rugged mood.
On the wall above the bed hung a portrait of the late King Alsen, sceptred, official, and benevolent.
And, for pure sham and hypocrisy, the salary is just the match of the ambassador's official clothes--that boastful advertisement of a Republican Simplicity which manifests itself at home in Fifty-thousand-dollar salaries to insurance presidents and railway lawyers, and in domestic palaces whose fittings and furnishings often transcend in costly display and splendour and richness the fittings and furnishings of the palaces of the sceptred masters of Europe.